Friday, April 1 and it started snowing this evening. No fooling. The forecast says it will snow at least the next 24 hours. I guess we will see if that’s true.

With another cold and wet day ahead of us we decided to take advantage of the car and drive to the Musee National de l’automobile in Mulhouse. It’s the largest automobile museum in the world. The Schlumpf brothers collected over 450 cars. It was interesting to see that the earliest motor vehicles were made to look like wagons and trains.

After spending a few hours at the museum we went to the very attractive town of Eguisheim. I’m sure there are a lot of tourists that come here, but today we saw very few people. I couldn’t decide which houses I liked the best, so I’ll post a lot. How many storks and nests do you see? We saw a lot today, including in fields while driving to Mulhouse. I read that centuries ago the houses were painted in much more subdued colors. They started getting a bit more color in the 19th & 20th centuries and in this century people have become more bold. We saw a sampling of the wine villages. Maybe some day we will be back.

After we got back to Colmar we returned the rental car. I hadn’t driven a manual since 2014, but I impressed myself by not stalling even once. You can see how narrow the streets are in the photos, but for me the most nerve wracking part was the underground garage at our apartment. There were some really tight turns to navigate. Tomorrow we will see more of Colmar on foot.