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A couple of weeks ago, Nate and I took a day trip to the charming French town of Colmar. Only a 40 minute train ride away, we were immediately immersed into a different culture. As soon as we got off the train, a little girl came up to me and started speaking in French… I assumed she was asking me if she could pet Jake as her face lit up when she saw him, but I wasn’t sure. I’ve learned how to say, “I don’t speak German,” in German, but I had no idea how to say, “I don’t speak French,” in French! Her parents were with her and once they realized we were Americans (for some reason, they can spot us out!), they spoke a little English with us. So the little girl got to pet Jake and then we were on our way. We continued on to walk around the city and came upon a nice park. It was empty because it was really cold out!
After walking through the park, we saw rows of beautiful old houses. Colmar is made up of colorful houses with exposed wooden beams. They are simply charming. It’s as if when they built them, they planned on having every color of the rainbow on each street!
This is the front of the Custom's House which was built in the 13th century. Our guide book told us to start our self-guided walk here, but it took us forever to find it. There is not one straight street in Colmar and the streets are not well marked, but it's not a bad place to get lost!
Colmar is also known as "Petite Venice" ... you can see the canals here and more colorful houses
To the right of this canal is the old Market House. They used to bring all of the town's food products in by boat and drop it off here.
For a pretty penny, you can take a scenic canal tour in a gondola, but it was a little too cold to be sitting still. We think we will save a gondola ride for the real Venice.
We stopped at a restaurant along a canal for lunch. We had to sit outside because of Jake, but fortunately, they had heaters blowing on us. We had the local specialty: tarte flambees... they were delicious. They look like pizza, but don't taste anything like it!
Jake was being so good just sitting there, but he was definitely giving me his puppy face because he wanted some of our food!
For desert, we had swiss chocolate with cream filling... yum... but they were hard to eat without being messy.
St. Martin Cathedral (built in 1235)
The architecture was amazing... it reminded us of The Munster in Basel 
The cathedral's clock was beautiful and underneath it says "Remember that you are mortal" in Latin
The remainder of the day, we just strolled through the pedestrian streets of old town ... it was simply charming
After walking through the park, we saw rows of beautiful old houses. Colmar is made up of colorful houses with exposed wooden beams. They are simply charming. It’s as if when they built them, they planned on having every color of the rainbow on each street!
This is the front of the Custom's House which was built in the 13th century. Our guide book told us to start our self-guided walk here, but it took us forever to find it. There is not one straight street in Colmar and the streets are not well marked, but it's not a bad place to get lost!
Colmar is also known as "Petite Venice" ... you can see the canals here and more colorful houses
To the right of this canal is the old Market House. They used to bring all of the town's food products in by boat and drop it off here.
For a pretty penny, you can take a scenic canal tour in a gondola, but it was a little too cold to be sitting still. We think we will save a gondola ride for the real Venice.
We stopped at a restaurant along a canal for lunch. We had to sit outside because of Jake, but fortunately, they had heaters blowing on us. We had the local specialty: tarte flambees... they were delicious. They look like pizza, but don't taste anything like it!
Jake was being so good just sitting there, but he was definitely giving me his puppy face because he wanted some of our food!
For desert, we had swiss chocolate with cream filling... yum... but they were hard to eat without being messy.
St. Martin Cathedral (built in 1235)
The architecture was amazing... it reminded us of The Munster in Basel 
The cathedral's clock was beautiful and underneath it says "Remember that you are mortal" in Latin
The remainder of the day, we just strolled through the pedestrian streets of old town ... it was simply charming
