Our days in Strasbourg are now behind us, but I'm still catching up on the posts and have more to tell - and show - about one of my favorite, if chilly, regions. Now that we're much farther south (no more gloves, at least most of the time), we're looking around for Christmas but it's not quite here yet. But it's a lot warmer.
Chapeau! in French is a way of saying - hats off! - to Alsace for having the biggest, brightest and most exuberant of the Christmas markets. I've already mentioned the jovial groups of
vin chaud drinkers and all the food, but the other thing we most enjoyed was the people. And the chapeaux - the hats - turned out to be part of the Christmas decorations. It started out with just a few Santa hats, though some of them had a new twist
and then there were more of them
and pretty soon it seemed as though we were surrounded by Santas
But that wasn't all, because there were also animals, the storks that roost on the chimneys in Alsatian villages
and mice
and a polar bear or two (it seems to be the year of the polar bear here- they're in all the decoration)
and even something sort of organic
but sometimes the best outfits are the classic ones.
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