This is the first shot one gets of the cathedral.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is a big city. It is host to the European Parliament. We stayed strictly in the tourist part of town. Below is a picture of a canal that runs through. Those are steps going down to the water.
Below is General Kleber who was from Strasbourg and one of Napoleon's top generals. He is buried under the statue. This is a huge square with fountains.
Another square is named Gutenberg because it was here he perfected the printing press. On Sunday morning there was a performance of dancing to polka music which looked just like square dancing.
Very picturesque little canals.
There are locks on the canals.
It's very huge.
Inside is an astronomical clock which performs. Many, many people paid €2 to squeeze into a small space and stand and wait for an hour to see the figures on the clock perform. Underwhelming.
This is the organ.
Cold cucumber soup. Two more weeks and hopefully we are home!
As we were walking he from dinner we ce upon this marionette guy. He was good.
His little Pierot removed his mask. It was brilliant.
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Strasbourg has such wonderful memories for me when I was a single DoDDS teacher! We would visit it atleast once a year. On one of our visits we ate at a cute wine Stube right on the canal. After dinner, of course we had many cognac and coffees. When the owner presented each of us our bills, it included his business card. We always joked that it represented a share of stock!😊
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