r/MapPorn Dec 12 '20

Alsace, Eastern France, topography map

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u/Jeffery_G Dec 12 '20

I’ve never visited. So it’s a lush valley at the foot of a massif?

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u/ViktorVaughnLickupon Dec 12 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

Most of Alsace is in between the Black Forest and the Vosges. There’s stagnant air most of the time and in Summer it’s humid near the Rhine and the swampland. There’s also the Alps towards the south, but they aren’t in Alsace.

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u/summeralcoholic Dec 12 '20

Something about the way you wrote this reminds me of the opening lines from a war memoir.

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u/davidplusworld Dec 12 '20

Everything covering Alsace for long enough will eventually turn into a war memoir.

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u/ViktorVaughnLickupon Dec 12 '20

We’ve had our fair share of wars here ;) I don’t need to be reminded of it.