July 6: Sauerkraut & Gewurztraminer

Well, hello. We have arrived in Paris!! (My first time.)  And here's what it looks like in our little apartment...

I did a good job, yes?  SabbaticalHomes.com.  Cheaper than a hostel! 

After our first trip to the market... Yes!

Moving back in time... Cutter looking dapper at our launching pad for the Alsatian Route du Vin, the lovely town of Kayserburg. On the Route for 3 days.   Baby grapes, a castle, some cute German-looking houses... what more could you want?

Oh yes, sausage. This is called choucroute. That's a heap of sauerkraut under there, topped with generous slabs of ham, several types of weenies, and of course potatoes.  If I'm not mistaken, Cutter may be sipping some Gewurztraminer here.

Only the finest accommodations for our fancy wine-tasting vacation. (More sausage money.)

The Alsacian stork was nearly extinct, with only two breeding pairs left.  Now there are 400.  One almost flew into our windshield.  40 years of good luck. (I made that up.) Cutter refused to buy me stork slippers, or a stuffed animal stork, or a stork snowglobe.  Fine!

This one's for Mom, Dad, and Aunt Nancy. This is in Riquewihr. About halfway up the 170km of winding roads and little towns along the foothills of the Vosges. Other stops included Colmar, Turckheim, Ribeauville, Dambach-la-Ville, Eguisheim, Katzenthal, & Strasbourg.  Vins include pino blanc, pino gris, gewurztraminer, sylvaner, muscat, crement, reisling, and pinot noir.  Too lovely...

And so we move back to sauerkraut. This time in Budapest. Not just kraut, but pickles. All kinds. And pickles stuffed with kraut.

Szechenyi baths in Budapest. What a freakin fabulous day.

A nicer view.  Lots of nice views in Budapest, but you can google image those. Budapest was awesome, by the way.

Well, I guess that's it for now. We've settled into our apartment in Paris, where we'll be for 15 days. Wowza! Better figure out what to do.  Lotsa Love--