Sunny Strasbourg

We've now been on our first long weekend to one of the surrounding countries which border Switzerland. The trip went to France, more specifically Strasbourg.

We hadn't really planned anything as we wanted to see how the weather was going to behave. According to the forecasts, rain was expected at some point every day, but all we saw were (semi)clear skies and sunshine. Hence we didn't spend any time inside: Didn't visit the Cathedral, didn't go to any museums or galleries, didn't take the car and go to places outside of Strasbourg; instead we went for walks, tried out the tram, hired some bikes, even went rowing on the world's smallest lake (when does a pond become a lake and the other way around?). We ate croissants, drank espressos and cafe au laits, ate ice cream, ate tarte flambee, drank wine and basically had the most relaxing time.

To illustrate how beautiful Strasbourg is and what a city-bike looks like there, please see below:

A pretty house in La Petite France (the old part of town).

View of the canal running through La Petite France.

The same canal.

The lake/pond.

Water feature in the lake/pond (probably purchased from the same water feature shop as the one in lake Zug - please see one of the previous posts).

EU Parliament taken from the tram.

I'm looking pretty ecstatic - this was before we faced the traffic (which wasn't that bad, really).

Apparently there used to be a lot of drummers frequenting parks in Strasbourg.

I kept telling Paul that there was a building near the Cathedral which had an unexploded hand grenade lodged in the wall. We eventually found it - see above on the righthand side as well as below.

However, it may not be a hand grenade but more a cannon shell...

This is my paparazzi picture of a stork in Parc de l'orangerie.

And a not that great picture of (part of) the Cathedral. It seemed like everywhere we went, we were able to see some part of the Cathedral, so we didn't really bother taking any pictures of it! But it IS impressive and in the tourist season, there is a light show in the evening which displays how intricate and detailed the building is.

All in all five gorgeous days in a city I'd definitely return to!

Lot of love,

Karen x