Day trip: Heidelberg

We headed straight to the schloss! Heidelberg is lovely. Also, it has an incredible history. Two thumbs up. I am a lucky human. It got sunny:   Apothecary museum (Free entry!!):   Mark Twain spent time in Heidelberg and wrote about this GIGANTIC wine cask in his book, A Tramp Abroad: And there was a students' prison. …

L’hiver

It's winter! I'll just leave most of my snow stuff in Colorado....Strasbourg doesn't get that cold, right? Oops. Vraiment oops. FYI, Strasbourg can get really really effing cold. And the humidity makes it feel much colder than the air temperature. Thankfully, I have discovered the magical world of Decathlon, the relatively low-priced sporting goods store. …

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Bon bout d’an from Aix-en-Provence! Our last home-base before returning to Strasboug was Aix, but we mainly used it as a base from which to visit Provence. Aix itself is very nice, we spent a day ambling around. Cezanne is from Aix! We also made excellent use of the local marche, and bought lots of …

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Carcassona: Next on the agenda was Carcassonne, the castle of my history-loving dreams. Carcassona is the Occitan name of the city, Occitan being the spoken language before the region became part of France a couple hundred years ago. Occitan seems very similar to Catalan, and they’re both Latin-based languages. Anyway, we just spent 1.5 days here, …

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Bon Nadal, Barcelona: What a fun city! I am writing this post and the next two updates while travelling via a lovely TGV train heading back toward Strasbourg after a busy two weeks running around southern Europe with my boyfriend, Greg. As you may or may not know, I am much more used to travelling …