The hot, Alsatian summer really takes the energy out of me. I just can’t imagine the heat that will embrace me as soon as I go back to Manila. But anyway, today was a good day to get out a little and take a little of that fresh mountain air. We headed to the north of Alsace in a town called Niederbronn-les-Bains. It was a nice, little place with a park full of kids and people playing minigolf.
minigolf
As we walk along the park, I saw a reflected-sunlight rainbow over a water surface.
rainbow
flowers
haystock
A few kilometers walk up the mountain stands the ruins of a chateau. It wasn’t indicated in the sign that it was just the ruins. I was expecting to see a real castle that would take me back to medieval times.
going up the "chateau"
ruins of the chateau
On the hike back down is another surprise. There are some ruins of I don’t know what and a lake that mirrors the trees and the sky.
ruins
nature
mirror
