Your Ramblers made one brief foray into France during this ramble, making a stop in Strasbourg (certainly sounds French, don't you think?). We went on a bike tour of the city, and went on a mission to locate the champagne we had three years ago in Epernay (that is only sold in France). Seal Team Six Leader (aka Rambler Jane) had her intel fully formed, and with the use of advanced technology called Google Maps, we took our biking rest stop as an opportunity to hunt down the store we knew carried it. Success was found only 90 meters from our stop spot and inside of five minutes we had secured two bottles of Milard Blanc de Blanc. We returned to the ship for lunch, but went back into the city and explored further in the afternoon. In addition to our tourist activity, we sought out a pharmacy (apothecary) for some cortisone cream to treat Rambler Hance's leg rash. We don't know if it was poison ivy acquired on our hike in Bacharach or an allergic reaction to the lotion in our room, but we again found our man (or cream, in this instance), and got some generic Benadryl to boot. After that came a late afternoon nap and then the staff dinner, which of course involved lots of wine and socializing with our new friends. Rambler Jane thinks a magic spell was cast on our ship because we consumed quite a lot of wine but never seemed to notice any ill effects...
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| Josephine (of Napoleon fame) |
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| Bike Tour Group |
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| Headquarters of the European Partliament (Strasbourg is one of three EU capitals) |
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| War memorial depicting the dead sons, both German and French. The dates are only French |
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| A lot of really nice flower beds, not uncommon in Europe |
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| Another canal-heavy city |
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| America is everywhere |
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| Champagne booty |
Tomorrow we move on to Basel, our last stop. We have many locks to transit over night. After Basel we go overland by train across Germany. Will post pics and details soon.
Until then,
continuer à marcher (keep on rambling).
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