Today we travel out into the countryside to explore delightful villages. We take the 'wine-road', seeing the fine vineyards, beautiful half-timbered houses decked with geraniums and perhaps a stork for which the province is famous. We stop in the tiny town of Riquewihr, home of fine Riesling wine and Kugelhupf cake! We then travel via the picturesque town of Munster and continue back to Colmar where a train ride shows us the Old Town and Little Venice, which make it possibly the prettiest city in France. We then have time to wander down the Rue des Marchands (Merchants Street) and Rue Merciére (Haberdasher Street) where there are many picturesque half-timbered, flower-decked old houses. This evening perhaps join an optional excursion to dine at a farmhouse inn, high in the Vosges Mountains. (BB)