Park Affaires Strasbourg

I started the week in Geneva because of work. During my weekly Skype call with my parents, they mentioned my brother would be leaving for Paris the next morning. Nice of him to tell me! I called him but couldn't get a hold of him, so tried again in the morning. By the time I was awake on Monday, he was in bed for the night, but luckily he woke up and answered the phone. He told me he had a free day on Wednesday with no plans so this would be a good day for us to ...

... got a salad. Bad idea.

After dinner, we casually strolled through town back to the hotel where we finally got an internet signal. We tried to do some blogging and catch up on life over the pond back home. Once again, during my traditional nighttime shower after completely flooding the bathroom, I went to bed for a very early train to Munich! Oktoberfest, here we come!

Sidebar about euro showers: why can’t Europeans put up shower ...

... tarte flambée contains only bacon and onions. We decided to take it to the next level where they also add cheese as a topping. It was delicious! We completed our meal with French beer, Kronenbourg, which is everywhere here (though I have drank it in Canada as well). After lunch we started our second audio tour but were tired of walking long before it was completed. We had visited many important buildings outside of the ...

... can't ever remember a bridge here at all, just the little ferry at Plittersdorf that is out of commission right now. Across the river is France, just a stones throw away. We head back into town to have a look at the race track. We find it quite easily, but then realize there is a race on and we are now stuck in the traffic that is heading to the fields to park. There are fields after fields filled with cars. The stables are now many and this is a huge affair. The races back ...

We caught the wrong train and wound up in Gengenbach. While we were waiting for a train back we met a lady who told us the town had a beautiful old-town section. So we went discovering again. After a good look around we stopped at a pub while we were waiting for the next train and got talking to the owner. Turns out he'd been to Australia on holiday, so we had a good time talking to him until it was time to go.

... better and more expensive, but I understand that they want to save money. We then went to the cathedral and sat there to finish our bottle of wine from the first night here and watched the light show that they were playing on the cathedral. They synced music to it. It was very pretty and fun to watch. They lit up the entire church. We then went back to the hotel because it was almost 11 and went to bed.

Nick being incredibly late and us being deceived by countless cars claiming to be him
the inaugural McBrunch
emergence of Bosh's Canadian flag as a force to be reckoned with
longest drive ever to the worst city ever with Nick and Nick's brother
-all roads lead to Reims
-wedding ...

... in new cities.    The day started with a stroll on the southern side of the city as we took in some of the neighborhoods outside of the main tourism heart.  There are really some terrific looking buildings and churches along the various rivers and canals.  From here we walked over to the university area where the botanical gardens are located.  The gardens were somewhat of a ...

... touristy, I thought it was well done. The ride itself was very relaxing, and was a really nice way to see the city. The audio guide was also very informative and I not only got to see sights that I had not seen on foot (nor that I was able to due to the holiday and because they were far away) with the cruise and I also learned more about the history of the city. Supposedly the river there in Strasbourg has a canal system that dates back (I ...

OK, so I hqve q lot more stuff written about the plqne qnd getting to Strasbourg, but I cqnnot connect to the internet using my computer, so I will try to find another way to post it. The conference is about to stqrt in an hour. Pqrdon my typing but the French keyboard is messed up. The ¨a¨qnd ¨q¨ are switched, along with a couple other letters and to lake the period, you have to hit shift+semicolon. I,ll try to get my other stuff on here soon. Lqter.