• Sparrows and storks

    June 21, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    We’ve driven a short distance up the road to Turckheim, near Colmar. In doing so, we crossed the 4000 mile mark in terms of distance driven this trip. We are at Camping Medieval tonight (and we have booked one night at Hotel des Deux Clefs for tomorrow). Looks like there is a music festival in Turckheim tomorrow so it may be heaving - we haven’t managed to book a restaurant yet!

    The weather forecast for today and tomorrow has been pretty bad but, actually, today was ok apart from one brief spell of rain this afternoon (and a bit more now this evening).

    We caught the bus into Colmar this afternoon. Nice looking place.

    I got my haircut, though my attempt at “numero quatre on top” went a bit wonky and it is a lot shorter than I expected 😊. Never mind.

    Storks feature heavily around here and there are a lot circling the campsite and landing on people’s pitches (though not ours so far). The only other birds we have seen on this campsite so far is sparrows - lots of them,
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