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Garbage sleep. Had to pee like 5 times and being on top bunk and toilet not in room this was rather bothersome.

One thing I really like about hostels is the small moments of excessive stupid joy you get from looking at a meme. The fact everyone is sleeping so you can’t make noise makes everything 1000 times funnier. I looked at 3 memes last night and I honestly couldn’t breath I was wheezing into my pillow trying to be quiet having a genuinely fantastic time.
I’ve looked at them again this morning and they aren’t even that funny.
Makes me think of a time in Florence when a guy couldn’t open his locker at 3am in the morning and was swearing to himself and I was beside myself with fits of the giggles. It wasn’t funny? But i could not stop laughing. Same thing.

Everyone left our hostel room before us so we could spread out to get ready which I really appreciated.
Checked out and walked up biiiig hill to the bus stop.
We read the bus board timetable last night so we know it’s the right stop.
Do you think my google maps knows that when you ask it? No. It tells me I’ll have to change bus 🙄
Easy DIRECT bus to station.
There was a sandwich shop but no seats and we were an hour early so we went walking for somewhere to sit. Nothing opens until at least 10. Burger King was 11 today. I just want to sit 😩
Sat in maccas and got a singular cheeseburger to hold me until lunch. Will got a meal except somehow I managed to order him 2 chips instead of a drink.
So i gave the spare chips to a homeless man on the way back.

We are currently on the train. An hour in with an hour to go.

Arrived and walked to the hotel which was only 450m away.
Small room but at least we have our own space.
We want food but everything closed at 2:30. We will have to wait until 6:30 for everything to open again.
Walked down the street to a grocery store. Got milk and cereal. Only we didn’t get milk 😪😪😪
So had to venture back to get milk again but this time with the translated word on my phone haha.
Had cereal, have had showers and now just waiting for 6:30 cause I’m still hungry haha.

We had a nap ha. So went for food at 7ish.

I found a poke bowl shop …. 👀😆
Probably the worst so far but also the cheapest so that’s fine.
I just want fruit and veg. It’s all I want.

It was dark on our walk so can’t see much but lots of little spots bursting with character I can’t wait to explore tomorrow.

But the main thing was -
It’s not often a cathedral stops me in my tracks. Almost never.
I’ve seen 1000 at this point.
Every city has one or several.
And yet the Strasbourg cathedral is the best I have ever seen hands down. No competition.
I couldn’t believe how big it was - it just disappeared into the sky.
It was even cooler because it was foggy and so gave off extra big spooky gothic vibes.
It’s 142m high built in the 1400’s.
It was the tallest building in the world until 1874.
Absolutely incredible.
Everything about it was jaw dropping.

You know something is good if even Will gets out his camera.

Photos can’t capture it obviously but I think one of them shows how much taller than the other building it is and how far away we are and yet it still dominates.

We are going to go inside tomorrow. Keen.

Back home and watching a comedy show in French for background noise haha.

Lucky today with the trains as well. France strike yesterday so we have dodged 2 now by 1 day.
May our luck continue 😬🤞🏼🤞🏼Læs mere