For Friday and Saturdays, Germain and I took a mini trip over to Strasbourg to visit the Christmas Market. The Strasbourg Christmas market is well known and is often regarded as the captital of Christmas. Walking into the old town of Strasbourg, you definitely feel that it's a little more like Christmas. Decorations flooded the streets, from the top of the roofs to the insides of every tiny boutique. The air smelled like a mixture of hot wine and roasted chestnuts. Wooden stalls filled with trinkets occupied the side streets.
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| Christmas trees! |
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| The Giant Christmas tree |
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| Me with hot wine |
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| Christmas ornaments |
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| More stuff |
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| Streets |
And at night, Christmas lights lite up the streets.
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| Giant tree by night |
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| Pretty street |
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| Cathedral in the back |
The architecture in Strasbourg is very unique as well. The houses have very steep roofs that allow the snow to fall and the wooden frame is often visible. The houses are usually painted different colors as well.
The Cathedral of Strasbourg is also very well known.
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| Outside |
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| Rose Window |
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| Pretty |
For dinner, we ate at a restaurant recommended by one of Germain's classmates who is from the area. It serves very typical cuisine from the city. However, it was not our favorite. Very fatty and heavy. Oh well, it was worth the try.
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| Pork thigh covered with cheese with sauerkraut |
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| sauerkraut with 5 of it's typical accompaniments |
On Saturday, the town was extremely crowded. Since we were able to visit most of the things we wanted to on Friday, we took advantage of being so close to the border and went into Germany by bus! There wasn't a whole lot to see right across the border, but we can say that we've been to Germany now! ^_^
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| A church in Germany |
