This afternoon (Ostermontag, yet another holiday) we went for a drive in the southern Alsace region of France just outside of Basel called the Sundgau (or as little signposts everywhere said, "Pays de Carpe Frite"--place of the fried carp). Unlike other parts of the Alsace we've visited, the Sundgau is not a wine region (they evidently settled for the fried carp as a consolation prize). Instead we hiked around the ruins of an old castle and drove along windy roads through forests and a bunch of picturesque small towns. Not a bad way to kill an afternoon when nothing in town is open.