In the fourth and final installment of her series on Alsace, Sandra Kohler writes about Alsace’s history during the first and second world wars. She and her husband Walt (whose photos are featured here) have been on many UnTours, but Alsace was an especially captivating region for them. When I think back on…
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Sandra’s Alsace Part 3: World War History in the Countryside
In part three of her series on Alsace, Sandra Kohler writes about Alsace’s history during the first and second world wars. She and her husband Walt (whose photos are featured here) have been on many UnTours, but Alsace was an especially captivating region for them. The photos above and just below are of the memorial…
Sandra’s Alsace Part 2: Historical and Intellectual Surprises in Village Churches
This is the second post in a series by author and Untourist Sandra Kohler on her eye-opening travels on an Alsace Untour. Read her first post, about the vineyards and wines of Alsace, here. So much of what we saw and I have written about could be described as “things we’d expected to find…
Alsace’s Landscape: Vineyards and Villages, the Wine Route
This is Part 1 of a series on Alsace by author and loyal Untourist Sandra Kohler. She spent two week in Alsace recently with Walter Hagenbuch, who has shot all of the accompanying photos in her series. Enjoy the first installment. Alsace’s vistas were reminiscent of Umbria or Tuscany, yet different – the hillsides…