DESTINATIONS SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL | FRANCE
FROM FAR LEFT: Vineyard in Alsace; 5 Terres Hotel & Spa, Barr; Strasbourg
PICTURES: Alsace Tourism/Bartosch Salmanski; Serge Lohner; Shutterstock/Leonid Andronov
GETTING THERE
Eurostar has return train tickets from London St Pancras to Paris from £78 return. Transfer from Gare du Nord to Gare de l’Est (a 10-minute walk or short taxi journey) then take the high-speed train to Colmar (two hours, 20 minutes) or to Strasbourg (one hour, 45 minutes) with onward train to Barr.
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Touristique (tickets €7.50) – the kind of small tourist train common to many French towns – whisked me past Gothic and Renaissance churches, gabled facades, medieval buildings and clusters of shops selling local wines and souvenirs. After a night at the glamorous L’Esquisse Hotel &
Spa (Tried & Tested, page 48), just five minutes’ walk from the city centre, the final stop on my Alsace tour was the region’s capital city and seat of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, an hour’s drive north.
Built along the banks of the River Ill, Strasbourg was a
larger, livelier version of the smaller towns I had already visited. There were the same, obligatory half-timbered houses but also grand squares and a hugely impressive cathedral with a 142m-high Gothic spire. It was tempting to stay and explore, but I had a train to catch and time only for a brief raid on the shops for a souvenir to take back with me. What could sum up the most enduring memory of this underrated region? A bottle of Alsatian wine, of course.
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