A Busy Street in Eguisheim
After looking for a couple of bike shops listed on the Internet but seemingly non-existent, we found bikes at the train station on the advice of a couple of kids that we asked. There the people were very helpful although we were communicating in a confusing mix of languages.
We rode one of the main streets out of Colmar, which had bike lanes, but we had cars and trucks whizzing past us at very close range. Reaching a bridge over the railroad tracks, we took a wrong turn down a lane but a workman in a van set us straight and we soon found a country road, still with cars coming uncomfortably close at a high speed. This road led us to the Alsatian villages of Eguisheim and Wettelsheim. Eguisheim is a pleasant village with modern outskirts and a medieval core, that day thronged with tourists basking in the warm sunshine.
Square in Eguisheim
We asked in the tourist office if there is a real bicycle path such as the voies vertes in Burgundy and we were directed to a street just by the tourist office, but it looked like an ordinary road to us. So we returned to the traffic circle that we had carefully skirted earlier and rode into Wettelsheim, a prosperous looking modern village where we again ate at a Logis. Then we took the same somewhat harrowing route back to the train station in Colmar.
We are not sure whether the voies vertes around Colmar are a state of mind or whether they do exist somewhere in reality.
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