Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Ribeauville and Kaysersberg, France



Ribeauville is one of our favorite towns in France. It is a quaint walled city. This is the first day that we had rain. It was light, but overcast most of the time. It's a town of half timber houses and we were impressed with the bright colors of houses.






In an attempt to wait out the rain, we had coffee and a kugglehof cake. This cake is a tradition of the village. The kugglehof is on the top shelf of this Bakery.





This town is also know for its storkes. We were fortunate to see some on top of one of the town buildings.














Kaysersberg is close to Ribeauville. Kaysersberg was first mentioned in1227. Lunch consisted of quiche Lorraine, a tradition of this area.




Albert Schweitzer was born in this town. Unfortunately, his museum was closed on the day that we visited.

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