Day 4 - Will see us departing for a four and a half hour drive to Alsace where we'll visit the Metz cathedral and the town of Arques Cristal. We'll have a light lunch, en route to the town of Colmar where we'll check into the Hotel Maison des Têtes. After enjoying some free time in the afternoon, we'll have dinner at the Auberge du Schoenenbourg, another 1 star Michelin restaurant in Riquewihr.

Day 5 - We'll visit, and have a degustation at the Domaine Sipp Mack wine producer at Hunawihr village. Lunch will follow in the local Restaurant La Bacchante in Bergheim. We'll enjoy a free afternoon in Colmar and have the opportunity to visit the Unterlinden museum that displays the famous Issenheim altarpiece. We can stroll through the old part of the city and see the Pfister Venise house built in 1953 and also tour the Batholdi museum. Back to the Hotel Maison des Têtes, we'll have dinner on our own.

Day 6 - Offers a free morning to browse and stroll through Colmar and have lunch at a restaurant we choose on our own. In the afternoon, we'll drive through the Alsace wine route and head for Ribauville where we'll visit the Chateau du Haut-Koenigsburg; a very famous 12th Century medieval chateau. We'll have a visit and degustation at the Domaine Weinbach winery at Kayserberg; owned by the Faller family. Returning to the Maison des Têtes Hotel, we'll have dinner at the hotel's restaurant.

Awe-inspiring Alsace
Noted for its wines, the principal cities of Alsace are Colmar, Mulhouse and the regional capital of Strasbourg; the city where Gutenberg invented the movable letterpress. Much of the region is found on a fertile alluvial plain that honors the all-important French notion of terroir, or native soil. An improbably beautiful place, it lies between the Rhine River and the Vosges mountains to the west. Alsace is a region sure to be mentioned whenever the French talk about their gastronomy, art, history and culture.

The region enjoys a semi-continental climate with hot summers and long warm autumns, ideal for market gardeners and wine growers. Alsace [and Lorraine] is unique among French regions, due to its dual Franco-Germanic cultures. The majority of the population speaks French with a decided German accent and a cuisine that is a wonderful blend of French and German cooking.