{"id":3958,"date":"2022-07-11T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2023-02-13T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:15:13","slug":"days-42-and-43-rest-day-in-colmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Days 42 and 43 &#8211; Rest Day in Colmar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a nice night in the campground of Neuf-Brisach. When we woke up in the morning, Mike had been doing some research and the town we are in is a walled town, and to look at it from the air, it&#8217;s a perfect hexagon. So this morning we took some drone shots, which we&#8217;ll put in our video from this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are getting very low on camping gas, and also need a rest day. It&#8217;s a 70 km cycle ride to Strasbourg, but last night I was googling a town near here which is off the route. I was so blown away by the picturesque town, I immediately booked two nights in a hotel there. So that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re heading this morning. To Colmar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only a 20 km cycle ride and we arrived in the town and had to navigate through masses of people. This wasn&#8217;t quite what I&#8217;d expected. We arrived at the hotel at 11am and were told we couldn&#8217;t check-in until 3pm, so we dropped off our bikes and found a supermarket and sat in the park and ate our salads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We went out in the evening for dinner and all of the restaurants were fully booked. Thankfully one took pity on us and we have a lovely meal sitting outside in the square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colmar is a neat town, everywhere you look are medieval chocolate ripple buildings of all different shapes and colours. There is an area called Little Venice, with a river running through the town, restaurants dotted along the side of it. After dinner we spent a good hour exploring and taking loads of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning we got up early and headed out to have more of a look around, and to do a vlog of the town. Hardly anyone was about, so it was a nice time to walk around the town. In the afternoon we found a camping shop which some the gas we needed for our cooker, and I also bought a blow up pillow, hoping it will be more comfy than my clothes stuffed in sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the bikes on Tuesday, and we should be in Germany in a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a nice night in the campground of Neuf-Brisach. When we woke up in the morning, Mike had been doing some research and the town we are in is a walled town, and to look at it from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=3958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-11Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}