Obernai

Yesterday we went by train south to Obernai, 30 minutes by  a stop-at-all-station train.  More pleasant countryside. Obernai is another pretty town , smaller hence few people than Colmar, with well kept half timbered houses, lots and lots of geraniums, had a more German than French feel to it.   Another walled city, but with 2 walls, one inside the other . 12C.

There was a fine tour of a now defunct chapel with a 13th C belry. The last storey is 16C with a 60m gothic spire flanked by 4 openwork bartizans - new word for us - box-like structures that stick out from each corner. There is an old well, quite large with 6 buckets  and 3 wheels, but it was so covered in flowers that getting a photo showing the 6 buckets was impossible.

In the evening we turned the TV on, the first time in 4 weeks. It took us a long time to find something we could vaguely understand. Many talk shows, a few reality ' team' shows with scantily clad young people prancing around and a show about life in a zoo, which we watched. We learnt of an animal we had not heard of - a jaguarundi mother had recently given birth to cubs and it was their first excursion out of the covered bunker into the exposed enclosure. Mum was having some troubles.