Travelling across France

After being stood up by our friendly Uber driver from last night, we had a bit of a panic when we couldn’t snag a driver to get us the station, but voila! we made it……..

We had a very fast and scenic journey through the French countryside. We travelled 500km in 1 hour 20 minutes. You do the sums, it was very fast! Then we arrived in Strasbourg - like a town from Beauty and the Beast or Shrek.

Our hotel is on the corner of the town square and we were greeted with all sorts of music, a market and some mini tennis games.

We had crepes for lunch sitting in the shadow of the massively tall and intricate cathedral, Strasbourg's Notre Dame, and did a bit of people watching too.

This town smells like gingerbread and has Hansel & Gretel vibes everywhere!

There’s a definite German influence here, yet everyone speaks French. I guess that is all explained in the history of Strasbourg.

The boat cruise was awesome! The history of Strasbourg is fascinating, but a bit of a highlight was going through a loch. We had to rise 2.8 metres, and it was so wow. What a cool experience!

Stories of life in the Middle Ages are so gruesome - the slaughterhouse bridges, the execution towers the public squares where beheadings happened, the bridge where people were put in cages and lowered into the river until they drowned - interesting, but so morbid.

A lovely dinner was followed with an evening walk and then off to bed to rest up for tomorrow's adventures.

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