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Strasbourg in Winter: What Is Worth It After the Market
Everyone knows December. Almost nobody writes about 27 December to March, when the lights stay on, prices halve and the …
Strasbourg by train from Paris and from London
[[fait:train.paris.duree|1 hr 45 min]] from Paris Gare de l'Est, and one change from London. Routes, cheap fares, and wh…
Do you need a car in Alsace? The honest answer
No for Strasbourg and Colmar, yes for some wine villages. Where the trains reach, where they stop, and what to do if you…
Flying to Strasbourg: which airport to choose
Strasbourg has its own airport, but from the UK the useful gateways are often Basel, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden or Paris. Wh…
Getting around Strasbourg: tram, tickets, walking
Station to cathedral, what a ticket costs, and the honest answer to whether you need the tram at all in a city you cross…
Strasbourg neighbourhoods explained, with maps
The whole historic centre sits on one island you cross in twenty minutes. How Strasbourg's fifteen quarters fit together…
Where to Drink in Strasbourg: Wine, Beer, Coffee
Eleven verified bars in Strasbourg, plus how to pick by mood: Alsatian wine, craft beer, speciality coffee, winter tea r…
Where to Eat Real Choucroute in Strasbourg
Three verified winstubs, the four signs of a properly made choucroute, and which areas of Strasbourg to search in and wh…
Strasbourg Hotels With a Spa: The Real Ones
Which Strasbourg hotels have a genuine wellness area rather than a basement sauna, in the centre and out in the vineyard…
Where to Stay in Strasbourg: The Best Areas
The seven Strasbourg areas worth booking, what each one costs, how loud it gets after dark, and an honest verdict on the…
Romantic Weekend in Strasbourg: The Honest Guide
The best of a weekend here is free, the rest needs booking. The months to choose, the electric boat, the spas open to al…
Strasbourg with Kids: What Actually Works, by Age
City museums are free for under 18s, the centre is entirely walkable, and one science centre fills half a day. What work…
Strasbourg in the Rain: What to Do When the Day Is Lost
Two covered places each fill half a day, and several famous ones close exactly when you need them. The honest wet weathe…
Three Days in Strasbourg: Two in Town, One in Alsace
The third day is the one people get wrong. Here is every excursion ranked by how reachable it actually is by train, and …
Two Days in Strasbourg: The Itinerary We Give Friends
Two full days without rushing, in the order that avoids the crowds: the Grande Île on day one, the imperial Neustadt and…
One Day in Strasbourg: The Itinerary That Fits
A day trip from Paris, or a single day on the ground. What actually fits inside the Grande Île, hour by hour, and the fo…
Colmar Day Trip From Strasbourg: The Day to Avoid
Half an hour by train, every half hour, no logistics to solve. The only decision that matters is which day you go, and t…
Strasbourg Off the Beaten Path: What Is Really Unusual
Half the hidden Strasbourg you read about is walled up or closed. Here is what genuinely opens its doors, and the quarte…
Strasbourg Tourist Train: Two Routes, and Who It Suits
Two circuits, not one, and most visitors only ever find the first. What the little train does well, what it does not, an…
Strasbourg Boat Tour: Which Circuit, and Where to Sit
Eight circuits, two piers and one obvious answer for a first visit. What you actually see from the water, when to book, …
La Petite France, Strasbourg: The Walk and the Hours
The prettiest quarter in Strasbourg, and the one that saturates fastest. Walk it east to west, in the right hour, and yo…
Strasbourg Cathedral: The Climb, the Clock, the Timings
Three visits in one building, three sets of hours, three tickets. When to climb, when the clock runs, and when the queue…
Strasbourg Christmas Market Coach Tours and Breaks
Three or four day Alsace Christmas breaks sell well and are badly documented. Where the hotel is, when the coach leaves,…
Driving to the Strasbourg Christmas Market
You do not need a car for Strasbourg itself. If you have hired one to tour Alsace, here is where to leave it and what th…
Getting to the Strasbourg Christmas Market by Train
From Paris it is straightforward. From London it is a half day with one change, and not a day trip. And the last train n…
Colmar or Strasbourg Christmas Market: Which One
Half an hour apart on the same line, and one of them shuts on 24 December. Your travel dates decide this more than any o…
Alsace Christmas Markets From Strasbourg
Which Alsace villages are worth the trip, and which ones swallow a whole day in buses. The markets ranked by how hard th…
A Christmas Market Weekend in Strasbourg
Book the room before the train, avoid Saturday, and build the two days yourself instead of buying a package. The method,…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: 40 Questions Answered
Dates, hours, prices, crowds, trams, luggage, dogs, Colmar: the questions readers actually send us, answered short and g…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Crowds, Weather, Security
The official crowd table day by day, what December really feels like outdoors, the bag searches at the entrances, and wh…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Accessibility
Free wheelchair loan, a signed accessible route, priority lanes and adapted tours. The scheme is real and serious. So ar…
Strasbourg Christmas Market for Couples
At 5pm on a Saturday you will not be holding hands, you will be holding on. The romantic version exists, but it happens …
Strasbourg Christmas Market with Kids
With children the problem is never a lack of things to do. It is the cold, the crowd and the tiredness. The slots, the f…
Where to Eat at Strasbourg Christmas Market
At 7.30pm in December there are two kinds of visitor: those with a table booked, and those walking past full signs. The …
What to Buy at Strasbourg Christmas Market
Soufflenheim pottery, a Meisenthal glass bauble, kelsch cloth, protected fir honey: what is genuinely made in Alsace, wh…
Mulled Wine and Bredele: What You Will Pay
Mulled wine runs €3 to €7 depending on the chalet, a tarte flambée passes €10, and bredele biscuits sell for €20 to €55 …
Strasbourg's Smaller Christmas Markets
Two squares out of eight hold nearly 40% of the chalets and most of the crowd. The other six are ten minutes away, slowe…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: Concerts, Crib and Events
The chalets are only half of it. Advent concerts in the churches, an 18-metre nativity crib in the cathedral, a guest co…
History of the Strasbourg Christmas Market
It began with a sermon in 1570, nearly died in the 1970s and came back as the biggest event in France. Four and a half c…
Strasbourg's Great Christmas Tree, Place Kléber
Thirty metres of fir, chosen in the Vosges in spring and trucked in at five in the morning. How the largest decorated tr…
Christkindelsmärik, Place Broglie: the 1570 Market
What the impossible name means, who the Christkindel actually is, what the 65 chalets on Broglie really sell, and what a…
Strasbourg Christmas Markets Map: the Nine Sites
There is no single Christmas market in Strasbourg but nine, spread across one island. Here is each site, what it sells, …
Where to Stay for the Strasbourg Christmas Market
The four neighbourhoods that work in December, what each one really costs, when to book them, and the three traps that r…
Strasbourg Christmas Market Hotels: 11 Checked Picks
Eleven hotels with the walk from Place Broglie measured, plus the security perimeter nobody warns you about and the five…
Strasbourg Christmas Market Dates and Opening Hours
What the city has actually confirmed, what comes from the pattern of past editions, and the exact hours day by day, incl…
Strasbourg Christmas Market: The Complete Guide
Europe's oldest Christmas market from a visitor's point of view: what the city has confirmed, which of the nine sites ea…
Things to Do in Strasbourg: What to See, in What Order
Everything worth seeing in Strasbourg sits on one island you cross in twenty minutes. Here is what to do, in what order,…
The Most Beautiful Alsace Villages, Ranked by Access
Riquewihr, Eguisheim, Kaysersberg, Ribeauville and the quiet ones. Which hold the national label, which are film sets in…
The Alsace Wine Route Without a Car: an Honest Guide
170 km of vineyard, seven grapes and a transport network that only half works. What you can genuinely reach from Strasbo…
Alsatian Food: What to Eat, and What to Skip
Choucroute, tarte flambee, baeckeoffe, munster: what each dish actually is, when locals eat it, and the traps that catch…
Things to Do in Colmar: The Day, Done Properly
Colmar is half an hour from Strasbourg and easy to get wrong. The two museums close on different days, and one of them s…
Colmar Christmas Market: What It Is Really Like
Six Christmas markets across one small old town, half an hour by train from Strasbourg, and crowds the photographs never…
How many days in Strasbourg? Two, and here is why
Two days cover the city, three open up Alsace, one works if you cut hard. What fits into each, and the calendar traps th…
Strasbourg or Colmar: which one, and when
Half an hour of train separates them, so the real question is where to sleep and which day to go. The honest comparison,…
Is Strasbourg worth visiting? An honest answer
Yes for most people, and genuinely no for some. What Strasbourg does better than almost anywhere, what disappoints visit…
Where is Strasbourg? France, Alsace, on the Rhine
Strasbourg is in north east France, capital of Alsace, on the German border. How far it is from Paris, from Germany, and…