Friday, May 24, 2013
This morning we took a tour of Strasbourg, France. It's really a lovely city with beautiful buildings and parks, and canals lacing their way through the city. There are lots of lovely half-timbered buildings and a cathedral that is impossible to fit in one photo - really! I tried it!
The area's mascot is the stork because the storks return from Africa in Spring, and so they were considered the sign of warmer weather and the time to plant and gather crops. There are stork nest pavilions in the parks and the tops of some buildings, but we saw a large number of nests in trees along a boulevard that ran alongside a large park built by Napolean.
The inside of the cathedral has a giant astronomical clock with figures that move and change with the hour as well as the day of the week and the phase of the moon, quite interesting.
We've tried to avoid eating too much of the pastry, but it's so hard to do. The pretzels really seem to be our problem though, we have them every day!
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