Spend Christmas as a couple in Colmar, Alsace’s wine capital, where half-timbered houses along Petite Venise and the old-town canals glow like a living Advent calendar. From 21 December through New Year’s, wander cobbled lanes between the Koïfhus, Maison Pfister, and Place des Dominicains, lingering at one of France’s most beloved Christmas markets for vin chaud, gingerbread, and artisan stalls, then warm up in candlelit winstubs over Riesling and Gewürztraminer—an intimate, storybook holiday far from California.