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Our visit with Roman began with a trip to Strasbourg. We raced out there in our rental car in time for our 2:00 brewery tour at Kronenbourg. It was worth the rush, though, despite it being a huge group of mostly Scottish high schoolers, the tastings were unlimited at the end. Until closing.
Otherwise, we found Strasbourg to be a bit boring. Erik and Roman were happy about the selection of beers, but the tourist things we did were quite dissapointing. From a sleep inducing boat tour to yet another church, we were ready to get out of there, so on Monday we took a day trip to Colmar, where we planned to do some biking around to different wineries in the area. I claimed that I'd only bike in the rain, so of course it rained that morning. The trip continued to go downhill when the tourist office didn't seem to have any sort of map detailing where exactly in the town the wineries were, and the bike rental place was closed. And the one winery that we did find yelled at Erik for tasting the wines in the wrong order. Other that that, it was a charming town, with lots of half timbered buildings, and it reminded us a lot of the Romantic Road.
I guess all the towns can't be winners, and we managed to have a good time regardless. We sampled flamekeuche, an Alsatian pizza, we had a nice dinner on the river, sipped white wine on an outdoor patio, and enjoyed the performances of local 'entertainers'.
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