Day 16 Turckheim to Mulhouse

Cycling through Alsace is like travelling through a fairy tale, The towns and villages are spectacularly beautiful.   This morning we cycled a couple of miles into Colmar.  This is a fair sized city but the old town in the centre is immaculately preserved from hundreds of years ago.  We parked up the bikes, had breakfast then had a wander  around followed by a boat trip along the river where  our boatman talked us through some of the history of the city.

We then get back on the bikes and we're straight back out into the countryside where we stumbled across the town of Eguishiem for  lunch.  Just when you think it can't get any better this place blows you away!  It is completely surrounded by the town ramparts with beautiful cobbled streets, wineries, churches and a chateau with loads of storks nests peppering the rooftops

We had a lovely relaxed lunch to the strangely soothing soundtrack of the stocks clattering their beaks in the nests above us.

After lunch we soon left the wine route to head down along some of the D roads onto the Rhine floodplain towards Mulhouse with some cooling trailside showers along the way.

  At the campsite there was a van selling Tarte Flambé, an Alsace version of pizza, sweet  and savoury options.  One of each made a top notch dinner.