Barr, Hôtel de Ville, or City Hall.

The beautiful town of Barr has more than its share of flowers and old timbered buildings. Large fountains are found along the cobbled streets, and some sidewalk gates were opened into photogenic backyard gardens, and street-side restaurants.

Notice that not everything in the town of Barr is a hundred, or more, years old. As you can see they are building, or maybe renovating, the building to the left. We don’t know about this one, but we have seen “ancient” buildings that were under renovation, and a closer look reminded us of the 100 year old hammer that has had seven new heads, and eleven new handles.

Our daughter has some friends named Barr, so we thought it would be a good idea to send them a bottle of wine with their name on the label. We were told it was illegal, it would cost $50, it wouldn’t work, but maybe all that was because we couldn’t communicate too well. Finally we visited the office of the wine co-op, and found that no wine was labeled with the word Barr as part of the name, but Barr did appear as part of the address. They gave us several labels that we mailed to the Barr family with the suggestion that they remove the label from another bottle of wine, then take some glue and — well, that was just an idea.