Thursday 19th Sept 2024.
We had originally intended today to visit Riquwihr, Turkheim, Kayserberg and Eguisheim very attractive towns close to Colmar. However after yesterdays tiring day of driving and being tourists we decided to have a relaxing day, there was also the small problem that if we drove off the camping aire, the pitch we had been using could have been taken by someone else.
So the morning was spent on domestic chores, Michelle did the laundry and I filled Homer with water, emptied the waste water etc …
Many sites have their own systems of operation and this one is different, you pay 17 euros to stay but everything else is extra, €2.50 for 4 hours of electricity, a 9 kg wash was €6 euros and to service Homer was €2.50. You had to use your card to obtain jetons, metal discs to feed into the machines.
On our drive into Colmar we drove past a facsimile of the Statue of Liberty on a traffic island and as we walked around the town there were brass signs engraved with an image of the statue of liberty set into the foot paths.
We set Alison a task to find out why, after a while good old Google enlightened us.
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty, this was constructed in Paris gifted to America by France and shipped to the USA in sections . He was born in Colmar and maintained a home there all his life, there is an art museum dedicated to him in Colmar. Hence the images.
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