Alsace. After Ribeauville and Riquewhir it would be hard to believe that there could be more prettiness, but then comes Colmar. Near Germany. Near Switzerland. With 67,000 inhabitants it’s a big town, in fact the retail area is huge, yet it retains a small town feel. It’s Gothic. It’s medieval. It’s heaving with tourists, and […]
Author: Kelvin Collins
Champagne to Alsace, wine, wine, wine.
Champagne! Reims was too busy, too full, so rather than stop at what would have been my university town (had I not dropped out), we wandered on to the true capital of champagne, Épernay. Vines dominate the hillsides, but I understand that the big champagne houses are buying up tracts of south east Britain for […]
Take me to your tunnel.
It’s not quite a year since we packed up, rented the house and set off. 18,000 miles and 20 countries later we made it back to Cornwall for a brief stay. Now we’ve hit the road again. Buzzing around England (and Wales) put 1200 miles on the clock before we left home shores. I consider […]
Leaving what you love.
The wild coast, the barren moors, the long empty beaches. The welcoming pubs, the not so welcoming pubs. The people you know and settle straight into conversation with, no need for introductions, no need to bridge the gap, even if you haven’t seen them in months. Familiar routes that you follow without a map, or […]
The West Cornwall blog.
I couldn’t let the day go by without a post. My plan was to give you all a rest for a couple of weeks as we wandered around some familiar territory. But then I was flattered by a few emails reminding me that most readers know little of Cornwall and asking that I keep at […]
Of time and the road.
Or. How to live longer in the same number of years. Think of this as a bonus track on an album. Content that doesn’t fit with the whole, but the singer/writer, or me in this instance, wanted to share. It has been a week of running around getting jobs done and visiting. It wouldn’t make […]