Drive to Freiburg im Breisgau

Today we got up and headed towards our next stop - Freiburg in Breisgau. It said it was about a 5.5 hour drive with traffic and there was also a weather warning for snow and ice in Millan so I was hoping it wouldn’t be too bad as we did have to go through all the mountains…when we woke up no snow, a bit of rain and not that cold so that was good. We stopped at some grocery stores on the way out of town and it was very wet snow there. Then started driving and in the mountains it was super cloudy and you could barely see the mountains, but they did have some snow on them. Apparently the cold was coming from the south which was interesting as we went through a tunnel to the other side of the first mountains and no more snow! We stopped for lunch and it was freezing!! The car said it was 5 outside, but it was windy and it was like eat as quickly as we can while trying to stay out of the wind and then jump back in the car! My fingers were so cold they hurt! But driving on it got colder and colder until it was just above or just below freezing so I was glad we weren’t trying to eat there.

Then there is a long 17km tunnel (in the middle the car said it was 30 degrees! So warm especially when it was so cold outside!) and on the other side of that was so much snow! The photos are ones Raymond took while I was driving and it was so nice! Not actively snowing, but cold outside and really pretty.

We did miss most of the traffic and took a smaller border crossing into Germany (the main road said an extra 20 minutes! So we said no, let’s go on the smaller road and drove right through). We got to Freiburg in Breisgau and checked in and went for a short walk and it was so cold!! Still windy which makes it colder and I will definitely have to have all my layers on tomorrow as it is supposed to be a high of 1! So very cold! Hopefully it is not so windy…But we walked down to a cemetery and were going to wander through a bit, but it said it closed at dusk and it was already after sunset and getting dark and we didn’t want to be locked in. We would have walked into town but it is a half hour walk and I have book club tonight so we didn’t really have time. Oh well, tomorrow we can do all the exploring in the cold! Their Christmas market is open already so we can spy and see what we see!もっと詳しく