We arrived in Colmar in the early evening and set out to find our Airbnb. I was really looking forward to this leg of our trip. I had high expectations and this whole area far exceeded them. We knew as soon as we stepped out of the train station we were somewhere special. I kept looking around not believing how beautiful and charming it was. The colors and half-timbered houses, and SO many flowers! I purposefully planned our trip right after the peak summer season, hoping to avoid heat and crowds, but was really hoping there would still be flowers. There were definitely still flowers everywhere! Colmar is less than 30 miles from the German border, so there is a strong German influence in the area in architecture, food, etc. It's just an amazing place.
Our Airbnb was the second floor of the building on the right and was built in the 13th century! We were instructed by our host to please water the flower boxes every morning, which made me smile. :) This was our least expensive place we stayed, but it was an entire apartment and was really spacious and nice. It also had a washer and dryer (that we maybe didn't quite understand, but was nice for washing everything we had worn thus far since we packed really light).
We were walking around this area around sunset and it was unbelievably beautiful.
As it was getting dark we decided to find somewhere for dinner. The places our host had recommended were closed since it was Sunday. We did find a cute place that was open and it ended up being one of my favorite meals of the trip. I got some sort of yummy chicken with homemade spaetzle. The spaetzle was my favorite part! We finished with an orange creme brûlée which was so good.
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