The Alsace - A Walk Through the Vineyards

On Sunday morning we got up and went for a walk through the vineyards and through several of the small towns that are nestled amongst the hills. There are all sorts of paths you can walk on and the TI gave us a good map that showed us our options. We chose a 6-mile route but you could spend all day doing a longer route with a stop for lunch. It was a gorgeous warm sunny day and I took a lot of really great pictures from the walk, too many to post here unfortunately. So here are some of the best ones. This is Riquewihr from a little ways up the hill:



Some grapes:



Frankie found a bench:



Now we're in Hunawihr, the town just north of Riquewihr:





There was a church in Hunawihr that stood on its own. We didn't go in but instead took lots of pictures of it:





Garmisch stopped to admire the view:



Hunawihr, from a little ways up the hill on our way to the next town:



Some more grapes:



We then walked through the town of Zellenberg but I didn't take any pictures of it because we were worried that the walk was taking longer than anticipated and we still had to find lunch and drive back to Zürich. Of course the walk was taking so long because Frankie and I had to stop and take a picture every 5 feet. The next few pics are taken from the top of the hill where Zellenberg sits but of course we didn't turn around to take a picture of the town:





Heading back to Riquewihr:





If you ever get to the Alsace region, I highly recommend taking this walk! We had originally planned to rent bikes and that would have been just as nice but only a few of the bigger towns have bike rentals and of course the rental places are closed on Sundays so renting bikes takes a little more planning than just setting out on foot.