Baden Baden

I t was pretty noisy overnight and could not operate earbuds properly. On the move early to find some breakfast, get tram ticket and be at Bus station for 10.50 bus to Baden Baden. Having dumped out stuff from rucksack before I left London yesterday, I now have to go shopping!!
Shopping went OK. Will collect tonight. The bus journey to Baden Baden was uneventful. The few people about at the bus station in Strasbourg were, as usual, unhelpful to the point of indifference. However the bus arrived and all was well. I headed off in the direction of the Centre on foot only to discover it was about 5 kilometres away from the station!! Half way - see photos, I cam across a Tourist Information. They guided me to the bus stop I was saved from collapsing when I arrived.
It is an odd place. Very renaissance buildings built on a mountain so hundreds of steps and stuffed with designer stores. I found the toilets in the Rathaus eventually - in the basement!! I decided discretion was the better part of valour and spent lots of cash on a back massage at one of the Spas. Brilliant. I was going to go native and do a roman bath and massage but it was mixed nude bathing and I hadn't had any lunch🤣
Sat and had a non alcoholic mojito outside a church. I had climbed 67 steps to see it. It was pink stone and fabulous stained glass. On my way to the bus for the station I had a double ice cream vanilla and pistachio. Yum! The train to somewhere where I had to change was late, and, at one point, it was suggested we all change platforms. There was a great deal of loud complaint. In the event it wasn't necessary. The next excitement was at the change station. One leaves the station onto a pathway in a tunnel while traffic rushes past lower down. Up some steps, through a small park and voila a platform! Extraordinary! Returned to a torrential dowpour and prolonged thunderstorm., which is still going on
Braved the weather and found an Italian restaurant nearby. Veal in mushroom and cream sauce washed down with s beer.
Bonne unit!Baca lagi