Strasbourg & Mittelbergheim

Ok… quick notes. tonight.  Too much wine at the local restaurant. Too much heat. Not enough non blog time. We are staying in Mittelbergheim. A sleepy little village in the Alsace that is littered with winemakers. We’re staying with one of them. The restaurant was two doors down and the local food was awesome. Such a big feed, and with all the wine. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.. 🙂


Today we drove 3kms up the road to Barr to get he train into Strasbourg. 40 mins. It’s gonna cook. We have la canicule (heatwave) going on but we’ll plug on. Train at Barr.

Arriving at Strasbourg.

Gare Centrale Strasbourg.  Their trendy facade which disguises the old station
Off we walk into the heat.

The postcard shot at La Petite France.




Too hot. Need beer. Eidelweiss (left), Fischer something (right).

Tourist boat goes by, Too hot to do that. They’re all fanning themselves, suffering in the heat.

Hot.

Moving on.

Another one in the lock.





Today is 37C, hotter in some areas.  It’s cookn’ but we move on slowly, hunting out water and whatever else is cold and wet.


Keep walking. Find the shade along the way.



We’re in good hands.

Place Gutenburg.

Souvenir shop alley as we head towards Cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg.


Maison Kammerzell, an extravagant half-timber Gothic building dating back to 1427. Used to be a medieval shopping mall, now a hotel & restaurant.

Cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg, or part of it. It’s frickn massive. And decadence extraordinaire!!



Looking up at one of the entrances. Ridiculous.

Back over at Maison Kammerzell,

Close up.

Cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg, a 13th-century Gothic architecture. Construction began in the 12th century and was completed in 1439.  At the time it became the World’s tallest building, surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Keep walking. Find shade.

Do we book a boat ride?  This is their booking ‘office’. No it’s too hot to sit out in the sun.

Keep walking’.


We stopped here for drinks and ice cream.

Which was next to this square. Details later, too much wine.

We looped back to the cathedral and went inside for a) shade, b) the nice cool temperature, and c) to watch others do the same.  No time for prayers.  The fairies won’t change the temperature!!  Still 37C.

Cathedral art.

Unreal, There were TWO souvenir shops inside this cathedral!!  Massive organ.

Back outside, moving on.  This thing is huge.


Backtracking.

Hot, need a slushy. Nice,

Heading back to the train station. Too hot.


Kath seeks shade.

We even ducked into a supermarket and hovered around the frozen food section and the chillers to cool down.  Nearly at the station.

Here it is.  Dahh. it’s 1 hour till the next train. We find a cool spot to sit and rehydrate.

Back to our accommodation at Mittelbergheim.  We’re staying at a kinda B&B which is located at a working vineyard. Awesome accommodation.

The ‘bridge’ is our outdoor drinking area.


We walk along the streets (this is NOT a big village). Pop.620. The town hall is 30m away.

There are heaps of winemakers here.

The old well at the town hall dates back to 1619.


Our accommodation is with this winemaker.

Two blocks down.

Opposite the other church. Yes there are two!

We get back to our room and empty another bottle of Pinot Blanc before heading out to dinner. Beautiful!

At dinner… ooops focus out.  Kath had a rack of lamb.

Of course I’m always keen on a rack but went for an absolutely traditional dish (I can’t remember the details, nor am I about to look it up). Bed awaits.

Let’s have a third bottle!

The rest is a blur.  Blog done for tonight.  Did I just write all this??
Mittelbergheim. A small Alsace village that has soooo much to offer!!! Love it here. Where else can you sit outside to dine, and then a tractor drives past, just 10m from your table??  Oh yeah I remember – the Naki!!   🙂