musings: Strasbourg/Colmar

Strasbourg

Part of the clock inside the Cathedral.

You may be looking at this photo and thinking "Wow, there's Elen in the middle of nowhere." You'd be right. Middle of nowhere in this instance is also known as finally within sight of our hotel. It was an exciting adventure Strasbourg was completely booked, so we were in a suburb. The exciting part was that the tourist office gave us directions to the wrong hotel, so then we got new directions and just missed the bus we needed so ended up walking instead of waiting 50mins for the next one...result was much jubilation when we finally got to hotel after bus, bus, walk, ask directions, walk, tram, no bus, long walk. Actually it went pretty well and could have been worse...and at least it made going back into town when we knew the way no big.

Freiburg, Germany

All the girls from BYU that I was traveling with.

German is awesome! One of the fun signs where it is in German, but you know pretty much what it is saying...the other type of sign you have absolutely no clue what it is saying, but you can't help but be impressed by the enormous quantity of copiously accented letters without spaces between.

Yes, this was my lunch! We ate in a really fun little restaurant.

Lunch alla medieval liege-lord...or maybe Henry VIII. :)

Colmar

As you will notice random snowfall has generously been provided by the city of Colmar. Actually it did add a fun Christmasey touch, and it certainly was cold enough for snow. (Actually I guess not, since it rained and not snowed all day, but I'm sure it was close.)

....aw, I do have an affection for all Forbidden to the Public signs that I see in France, we just don't have a satisfactory english equivalent in my opinion. :)