There are so many other activities in the Alsace region. Canoeing, all terrain bike tours, quad biking in additional to the hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks. There is also an old train "touristique," The Ried Express...View image...that leaves from the restored train station (built in 1880) at Vogelsheim. This train goes to the San Souci pier where you board a boat for a 80-minute cruise on the Rhine with views of the Black Forest and 13th century Gothic Cathedral of Breisach. After that, the train takes you back to Vogelsheim.

There was still time for more walks through Riquewihr in the evening since the hotel didn't serve dinner. We walked back into Riquewihr and up and down the little side streets before eating. One street had a little family owned winery with their bottling operation set up right there on the street. One person putting bottles on the conveyor line, bottles filled with wine, corks pushed in, someone else taking the bottles off and sticking them in cases. ...View image...Interesting and hypnotizing.