Holidays

I've been arranging my summer holiday.

This year I am going to drag the wife and kids to the Vosges hills in Lorraine.

Where? you ask? Why? even.

Well, the starting point was the expense of a Brittany ferries crossing in August. Terribly expensive.

Dover - Calais is a whole lot cheaper! But when you are in Calais, where do you go? Might as well head inland, cos from there it is just about as far to the Atlantic coast as to Alsace.

I once spent 4 months at medical school in southern Germany which is actually not to far north from Alsace, and i have fond memories of the area.

You may remember that prior to ww1 Alsace and Lorraine were German territories, sort of.
Then after the treaty of Versailles they were ceded back to France with the Saarland (which is where i was at university).

Coming, as I do, from so near the coast, there is something rather oddly nice about being so far inland as that part of Europe.

It is certainly worth a trip for a holiday. So we are visiting Gerardmer, on a lake in the hills.

So we hope to see the countryside, experience the life, maybe visit Colmar and Strasbourg. perhaps pop over to Freiburg.

I have bought a new big tent for the trip, now that my children have gotten so big.

It arrived yesterday and the bag for it is enormous! 42Kg.

Got to wonder next if I can fit our canoe on top with the roof box for the trip. Might be too much hassle.