Colmar is a short drive from Ribbeauville and on Sunday morning, 15th September, the traffic was light and the aire was less than half full. We had been on the road for a week and had accumulated some laundry. The aire at Colmar had its very own Revolution launderette consisting 2 washing machines and one tumble dryer.
Great, as we had arrived by lunchtime we decided to do our laundry and then head off into town. The washer finished in 33 minutes but the tumble dryer didn’t tumble. it heated, but did not turn so we left our laundry in there for 20 minutes and then hung it on a line in the van so it could dry while we explored the city.
Colmar is one of the best preserved medieval cities in eastern France and I wanted to have a good look around. It was a fair walk into the centre, probably 20 minutes or so, but it was definitely worth it.
Tourist Information was closed, well, it was Sunday, so we used our phones to guide us around. The city was crowded with people enjoying a sunny late summer Sunday afternoon. We meandered around the centre for the afternoon and enjoyed a late lunch/early dinner before heading back to the van but both making a mental note to revisit it again on the way home in a few weeks.
The rain started in the late evening and it was still raining the next morning as we departed Colmar and headed to Singen, Germany. We stopped in Singen purely to break the long drive to our next destination Meersburg, on the north shore of Lake Constance.