Alsace and Switzerland (1 Viewer)

[ToBoldlyGo]

We're on tour, tootling down to Switzerland at the moment and then afterwards we'll head to Alsace. We had a pleasant couple of hours in Saint-Quentin yesterday. The aire has 10 pitches and none free but there's room for about 3 vehicles outside so we parked up there.

We wanted to visit Vitry-le-François idea was to fuel and shop at le clerc but it had height barriers 3.1 metres the signs said but some barriers were at different heights so anyway we didn't chance it.

We're now at a 58 pitch CCP aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq which is the largest artificial lake in France.

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

We trundled on and off the Alsace wine route a few years ago, drank far too much wine but had a great time…

Homepage - Alsace Wine Route

www.wineroute.alsace

 

[ToBoldlyGo]

We're looking forward to Alsace after Switzerland.

Our current aire has lost its Charmes because it's pouring. I did have a quick look at the town last night in the dry which is ok, the quiet aire is on the water and there are hikes and cycle routes, also Charmes has a railway station and connects to Nancy.

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[Viennese]

We are going to Alsace & Jura in Sept, so I will follow you and see where you end up!

 

[David and Sally]

Lovely area. Recommend Colmar as a town and well worth stopping off at the Ossuary in Verdun for some WW1 history on the way through. Very sobering.

Home - verdun-douaumont

www.verdun-douaumont.com

Also,

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[Orion]

We're now at a 58 pitch CCP aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq which is the largest artificial lake in France.

We were there last year for 3 nights at different locations and cycled around the Lac. There are free park up areas dotted around - mainly on the shore opposite the Station Nautique.

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[ToBoldlyGo]

We have been in Colmar for 3 days, on Wednesday there was a Mexican (I think) food van, it looked nice but we'd already made plans.

Colmar old quarter is endlessly interesting, for example the cathedral square (lovely RUC bookshop there) but we move on tomorrow, not sure where yet.

The electric old quarter train is a real bone shaker, my back was fragile even before I got on it.

Colmar has bus as well as train links to other places. For getting to the old quarter from the aire say 1km, there's a no. 1 bus just outside the aire, get a 10 ticket carnet from the TRACE bus company office not far from the TIC in town centre.

 

[Barryh]

We're now at a 58 pitch CCP aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq which is the largest artificial lake in France.

One of my favourite stopping places. Not been since it became CCP.

 

[ToBoldlyGo]

From what I've briefly read, it's better as a CCP. But it's arranged as a long strip and all the liquid services and the rubbish is at one end and outside the barrier, so a faff.

We've spent the day in Eguisheim which is very picturesque. The aire's expensive at 20ish euros (you can pay less for 4 hours but I do not think you can 'do' the town that quickly!) but the aire is quite nice and about <1km from the town centre. I chose Eguisheim because it's in one of Alan Russell's books Most beautiful villages and towns in France by motorhome.

Try the flammekueche which is a sort of delicate pizza

Flammekueche (Tarte flambée)

A dish with a dough base topped with a mixture of cream, soft white cheese, bacon chunks and onions. You eat it with your fingers! Baked in a baker's oven, it was traditionally made on the days when bread was baked at the farms. You can also try the sweet versions with apple, plum and cinnamon...

www.tourisme-eguisheim-rouffach.com

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[Lenny HB]

We're now at a 58 pitch CCP aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq which is the largest artificial lake in France.

They have taken over the ones on the west side still some free ones on the east side we stopped at one of them last October.

 

[Puddleduck]

Lovely area. Recommend Colmar as a town and well worth stopping off at the Ossuary in Verdun for some WW1 history on the way through. Very sobering.

Home - verdun-douaumont

www.verdun-douaumont.com

Also,

Musée National de l'Automobile à Mulhouse - Collection Schlumpf

Le Musée National de l’Automobile situé à Mulhouse détient la plus importante collection automobile du monde réunissant plus de 450 voitures d’exception.

www.musee-automobile.fr

+1 for Colmar

 

[ToBoldlyGo]

We're in Kaysersberg at the moment, a very good spot for cycling and quite a scenic old quarter. I'm thinking of popping up to Strasbourg and then starting the 7 day tour of southern Alsace from the 50 motorhome tours book by A Russell.

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[ToBoldlyGo]

So we're now at the aire in Kehl and tomorrow we will walk up to the Tourist Office and then get the tram into Strasbourg.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

So we're now at the aire in Kehl and tomorrow we will walk up to the Tourist Office and then get the tram into Strasbourg.

That’s a good place to stop, the tennis place just over the road have a nice restaurant
Kehl itself is worth a walk around but Strasbourg is a place we will return to as 1 day is not enough there.
We went in summer and they have a land train that does a good tour out to the German built part, some lovely buildings there.
The pups liked it

 

[ToBoldlyGo]

Yes I agree 1 day not enough and we will be back. I quite like the little I've seen of Kehl too and as I see it has a hauptbahnhof I'm interested where one could go.

For anyone who likes cheese I recommend Felix's cheese shop in rue des Frères (just near where you get off the tram from Kehl) :

Le Goût du Terroir​

We had a taste of his nettle cheese which actually is very nice.

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[ToBoldlyGo]

We failed to find a decent ice cream shop, any suggestions?

 

[Ianbenny]

We're now at a 58 pitch CCP aire at Lac du Der-Chantecoq which is the largest artificial lake in France.

Is it this one - we are looking to tour Alsace in Sept - looking for ideas

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[ToBoldlyGo]

Yes that's the one. Another CCP that I wanted to try was at Andlau. Our satnav said we'd arrived but we saw no sign of the aire and ended up driving up the hill right through the town on small road with overhangs. After much faffing and asking a local I walked to the aire. I never did figure out how to get to it by road! Why no signposting. So anyway we gave up on A and went to Dambach which is nice, grassy with views about 2k walk from the centre-ville. I did a hike and bike ride there.
We left today and have now settled in at Ribeauvillé, q nice aire less than 1k from centre.

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[ToBoldlyGo]

One thing to watch for with CCP, I didn't use them for quite a while and the next time I wanted to I found my credit with them had disappeared and my balance was zero. I queried this and they restored my balance. I wonder what would happen if I'd not queried.