Colmar Scenes

After the museum, we headed off on a sort of walking tour, mainly in search of a resto on one of the canals where we could have the local specialty, tarte flambee. There was much to see on the way, and back.

Frederic Bartholdi was from Colmar...we'll see more
from him

Many interesting houses, buildings along the
way...this one nearly Flemish

Remnant of the bygone

Never did get the story of this doozey...

Great carving here and there

So Voltaire lived in Colmar for a couple years after his break-up
with Frederick the Great; France's greatest thinker had a knack for
getting himself exiled and also getting exiled from his exiles

We think he lived here

Probably not here, although he did champion freedom
of expression...

Finally, the canal

And our restaurant on the left

Our tarte flambee, which we had regarded as a real discovery in 2011;
not so much in 2023; we should have ordered two; sort of like a pizza
but without tomato sauce; and too many onions...

More of the canal, with hundreds of uniform red love-locks; some
sort of city ordinance, we hypothesized; Voltaire probably would not
have approved

Still more of the canal, on which you can take boat rides, as in Brugge,
Amsterdam, Venice, Peoria...behind the canal is the old covered
market, restored and gentrified

And adorned by a Bartholdi fountain and sculpture

Thus

More attractive and/or interesting buildings

In the courtyard of the Bartholdi Museum, which we
eschewed

We have learned that if you look hard enough, you'll
always find an Art Nouveau building; here is Colmar's