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A Week in France, Alsace to Paris

·Colmar, France·#summer#family trip#france#alsace#colmar#paris
Two young people on white carousel horses, one smiling and one laughing, with a city street in the background.

Alsace first, Paris after — a week of it, and Colmar took the biggest share. The girls found the old two-story carousel and rode it like they hadn't outgrown it, one yelling from her painted horse with a fist in the air, the other playing it cool under her sunglasses. Down at Petite Venise we leaned on a bridge over the canal with geraniums stuffed into every window box, and somewhere between the half-timbered houses and the souvenir stalls I ended up with a chocolate-dipped cone in one hand while my wife laughed at me for it. Nobody offered to share theirs.

The clock tower at the Colmar station was the last thing we stood in front of before moving on.

Paris went up instead of out. The girls got onto a rooftop with all of the zinc roofs and chimney pots spread below, the Eiffel Tower off in the distance, and one of them stretched her arm out over the railing like she meant to pinch the tower off the skyline. Her sister leaned on the ledge and let her carry on.

Three people, an adult and two children, pose for a selfie in front of a canal with buildings.Two smiling people in sunglasses and hats, one holding an ice cream cone, stand on a sunny street with old buildings.A person and a child smile for a selfie in front of a street and a large brick building with a clock tower.Two young people on a rooftop with the Eiffel Tower and a cityscape under a cloudy sky.

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