Our latest trip.....Strasbourg FRANCE !
And on the way home we went to the Frankenstein Castle in Germany.
Well, we drove to France this past Saturday. Strasbourg http://strasbourgfr.ags.myareaguide.com/ France is near the border of Germany. You can read all about it from the link... but the city has the European Court of Human Rights and it hosts the "Council of Europe" established in 1945. There is a major Cathedral called Cathedral Notre Dame (not the one in Paris that you are thinking of). However, this beautiful building took more than 300 years to build and was started in 1015....partially burned down and then more was completed in 1245. Then it was almost complete in the 1300's sometime, I think. Here is a link to a page with history and photos of the Cathedral.
http://www.strasbourg.com/strasbourg/us/visiter/monuments/78.html
Below you will see our photos of our trip and of the Cathedral. We stayed one night in a hotel and it took us about 3 and a half hours to get there and a half tank of gas. If we didn't make the side trip to the Frankenstein castle, we could have driven to France and back on a full tank of gas. Which by the way if you are wondering...gas on post $2.71 per gallon and off post about $6 per gallon....I think. Well it is 1.31 Euro per liter...so it is roughly 4 liters per gallon and then you change the Euro to dollar and we think it is about 6 dollars per gallon. So we stopped at the Army base in Darmstadt and filled up on our way home. Darmstadt is very near the Frankenstein castle.
Driving on the autobahn in Germany is getting better...as far as, I think we are getting used to it. We have found it works well if I navigate and Jake drives. Which is a big switch for us...usually I navigate AND drive! hehehe, just a little joke...sort of.
We stayed at an Ibis hotel, which is a chain http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/index.html. We didn't have reservations, decided just to 'wing it' and that worked out well for us. The hotel was situated near a mall and near a McDonalds and the hotel had a restaurant attached to it. With a little extra...our hotel room came with a buffet breakfast (choice of cereal, sliced meats and cheese and some plums, juices, coffee and of course croissants!).
Our dinner that night, was a total of about 50 Euro. Jake had the lamb dish and I had the fish. Ann-Marie had a burger (no bun) and fries. But we were not at one of these wonderful gourmet French restaurants with multi-course meals, that you read about. It was just as well, because we had a tired little kid with us and we needed to eat and get out of there.
We also had a bite at McDonalds when we first got into town. So, yes, we had 'french' fries, in France. But they don't call them that. LOL At McDonalds Jake ordered a "Royal with cheese" (no quarter pounders...metric system) and I had the McSummer burger which had some unusual (to me) sauce on it and some tasty cheese and tomatoes. Sorry to bore you with the minuta of our day but I thought some might be interested to know the differences.
Well, we drove to France this past Saturday. Strasbourg http://strasbourgfr.ags.myareaguide.com/ France is near the border of Germany. You can read all about it from the link... but the city has the European Court of Human Rights and it hosts the "Council of Europe" established in 1945. There is a major Cathedral called Cathedral Notre Dame (not the one in Paris that you are thinking of). However, this beautiful building took more than 300 years to build and was started in 1015....partially burned down and then more was completed in 1245. Then it was almost complete in the 1300's sometime, I think. Here is a link to a page with history and photos of the Cathedral.
http://www.strasbourg.com/strasbourg/us/visiter/monuments/78.html
Below you will see our photos of our trip and of the Cathedral. We stayed one night in a hotel and it took us about 3 and a half hours to get there and a half tank of gas. If we didn't make the side trip to the Frankenstein castle, we could have driven to France and back on a full tank of gas. Which by the way if you are wondering...gas on post $2.71 per gallon and off post about $6 per gallon....I think. Well it is 1.31 Euro per liter...so it is roughly 4 liters per gallon and then you change the Euro to dollar and we think it is about 6 dollars per gallon. So we stopped at the Army base in Darmstadt and filled up on our way home. Darmstadt is very near the Frankenstein castle.
Driving on the autobahn in Germany is getting better...as far as, I think we are getting used to it. We have found it works well if I navigate and Jake drives. Which is a big switch for us...usually I navigate AND drive! hehehe, just a little joke...sort of.
We stayed at an Ibis hotel, which is a chain http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/index.html. We didn't have reservations, decided just to 'wing it' and that worked out well for us. The hotel was situated near a mall and near a McDonalds and the hotel had a restaurant attached to it. With a little extra...our hotel room came with a buffet breakfast (choice of cereal, sliced meats and cheese and some plums, juices, coffee and of course croissants!).
Our dinner that night, was a total of about 50 Euro. Jake had the lamb dish and I had the fish. Ann-Marie had a burger (no bun) and fries. But we were not at one of these wonderful gourmet French restaurants with multi-course meals, that you read about. It was just as well, because we had a tired little kid with us and we needed to eat and get out of there.
We also had a bite at McDonalds when we first got into town. So, yes, we had 'french' fries, in France. But they don't call them that. LOL At McDonalds Jake ordered a "Royal with cheese" (no quarter pounders...metric system) and I had the McSummer burger which had some unusual (to me) sauce on it and some tasty cheese and tomatoes. Sorry to bore you with the minuta of our day but I thought some might be interested to know the differences.
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