I have never seen a place as charming as Colmar’s Little Venice. We were supposed to go to the ecomusee, but it didn’t look so exciting from the outside. I know – you should never judge a book by its cover blah blah blah, but well, I was more in the mood to visit villages. I thought Colmar would be a good city to stroll around, just sit and have coffee while having one of the best conversations of my life.
OK I admit I also needed to use the bathroom (or WC as the French calls it). It’s so hard to find a public toilet in France. When we were in Paris, we asked a guy who works in a cafe if they have a bathroom and he said very rudely, “For customers only”. So we had to buy something in that cafe. And my boyfriend told me that it’s normal to see guys peeing along the street walls of France because you almost always have to pay just to use a bathroom. Hmm…isn’t this just familiar – peeing along street walls!
Anyway, I’m digressing. So we walked around Colmar and I had the one of the funnest times in my life. Everywhere is beautiful and the place will make you fall in love all over again!
We thought at first that this is it – Little Venice. As long as there is a canal, it is Venice. It is so not this! But it’s still tres mignon.
Little Venice
This is it – Little Venice! Or at least some parts of it. The Colombage houses sitting along the canal is just breathtakingly beautiful.
Charming!
Little Venice
Inside the village of Colmar are beautiful houses that reminds me of dollhouse.
Superb house design inside Comar
typical Colombage Alsacien houses in Colmar
this house is truly enchanting with its precious flower beds
France gave the Statue of Liberty (made in Colmar) to the United States as a symbol of the friendship that started during the American Revolution. Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, was born in Colmar. This statue stands in a traffic circle in a commercial zone of Colmar where it welcomes the visitors at the northern entrance to the pleasant city of Colmar.
Colmar
On the way home, we decided to visit a few more villages along the Route du Vins. I don’t know where this place is exactly, but it gave me a sense of peace just to sit in the grass and enjoy the peaceful greenery around me. We called it the road of the corn because of the corn plantation around.
Road of the corn 
