3-Country Buying Tour Game- France, Switzerland, and Germany Suggested by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

3-Country Buying Tour Game– France, Switzerland, and Germany:

 

Alsace (France)

Basel (Switzerland)

Stuttgart (Germany)

Suggested by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

In France:

Strasbourg –

Capital of the European Parliament

(The elected officials are here.  The bureaucrats are in Brussels, Belgium.)

-Beer Steins

-Moselle Glasses with green stems

Château de Haut-Koenigsbourg

-Books about Falconry and Heraldry

Riquewihr

-Kathe Wolwert Christmas Store here is open all year. 

The headquarters for this store is in Nuremberg, Germany.  They sell wooden nativity scenes, tin Christmas tree ornaments, and probably Mobil wooden toys for children.

-checked tablecloths, napkins, aprons, and placemats

Colmar

-The Issenheim Altarpiece in the Unterlinden Museum is the main reason for visiting this museum and the Madonnas carved in wood

-Canals run through town making it a Little Venice

-Colmar is the wine capital of Alsace, which is known for dry and fruity Rieslings

-Art books at the Unterlinden Museum

-Caraway Seeds to go on Muenster Cheese back in the US

Switzerland

Basel

-Group Banking Introduction to Swiss Financial Products?

-Fondue lunch with Fendant du Valais wine from Switzerland

-Cow bell souvenirs

-Rolex watches

-Mont Blanc pens with GPS

-Cartier Jewelry

Germany

Freiburg – Black Forest

-Hand carved Cuckoo Clocks

-Beer steins

Stuttgart –

Car Capital, Wine Growing Area (Riesling), and Chocolate Manufacturing Town (Ritter Sport)

-Ritter Sport can arrange factory tours

-Baltic pearls

(In the same stores sell Mont Blanc pens and Rolex Watches)

-Group Banking Introduction to German Financial Products?

-Porsche Museum

-USB-Ports with toy Porsches on the end

-Mercedes-Benz Museum

Both Porsche and Mercedes-Benz have their main manufacturing facilities here. All other German carmakers have sales rooms, too.

-Audi – luxury car brand made by VW

-VW

-BMW

-Metzingen and Brueniger Land 

Malls with Designer Clothes and Accessories

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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