Ferrette - Alsace France

During the October holidays I visited my friend Alison and her family who live in Alsace, France. It was a short journey from Zurich (my first big drive since passing my test). This area in France is lovely and I always like to come here, on Sunday we visited Ferrette. We parked at the bottom of the hill and walked up, first passed the church.
The garden that you can just see is a herb garden, but is was not looking at its best.
The street we walked up was very pleasant with lots of lovely houses to see, like this one which is in fact a gite which is a holiday home for rental.



The ruined castle is 612m high and not much is left!

The views were just phenomenal, the mist was beginning to clear and we could only see in a certain direction.




Alessio and Lana enjoying a little snack with a view!

We walked back down the same street and to the car, it was a lovely town.

A Weekend in Alsace

Last weekend Alessio and I went to visit a good friend of mine Alison, who lives in a small town in France, Hirsingue. We have visitied numerous times but this time marked the fact that I drove myself, the drive itself went well. Hirsingue is only about 50 mins from Basel in a region of France called Alsace. I have been many times to this area it is very interesting and lots places to see and things to do.Sunday afternoon Alessio went for a short walk around the town with the main reason to find a playground, but alas it was closed.




A charming river flows through the town!


Alison has horses, a pony and 3 dogs, sadly I did not take a photo of them, but sufficed to say I can just about cope with them without breaking out in sweat!
Monday morning we drove back to Zurich, thanks again to Alison.