The whole Strasbourg trip had a trip to the Alsace Countryside. We left at 8am this morning and when I woke up, we were on top of a mountain and I was looking out over a cliff. The first stop was a castle from the Middle Ages situated on top of a cliff. We took a tour of the castle and kept walking up and up. It was awesome. We could see amazing views over the Alsace countryside, of all the vineyards. We then left to another small town to explore. It seriously looked like it was out of a fairytale. The houses were little, colorful, with small shutters.
We then stopped for lunch, where we could either have chicken or boar. Oh boy. I chose the chicken (obviously). But apparently boar is a speciality. Oh France...
While driving, we just kept passing vineyard after vineyard, that went up the sides of the mountains. Alsace is one of the regions of France known for great wine. That was where we headed to next, our "degustation." Or wine tasting. We went to this little wine cellar with a couple who lead us in French through my first wine tasting. We had little glasses and tasted 5 wines. I liked some of them more than others and decided to buy a bottle for my host family as a nice gift.
The countryside was awesomee.
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