Germany and France

So back now in Germany at Sandra's place in Karlsruhe, and another 3 nights before I flew out of Europe.

They had a plan for our time, generally centred around food, which was all good with me. Dinner once I arrived on the first night. The next day, which was not overly sunny in the end we went to the lake to relax and swim, and that night a BBQ in the park. Monday was the trip to France, Starbourg to be exact, which was like an hours drive away, and then Tuesday making spring rolls to gear up for Asia, and me attempting to pack my bags again....

The lake was nice, seeing as where they are in Germnay is very far from the sea, I think nearest coast was Italy, the lake is filled with people, but had some nice surrounding park area to lie down, the water was a little cool due to it being a cloudy day, but it was refreshing definitely.

That evening we went to the park to BBQ, very nice evening sitting around, although the park wasn't so lit, so you had to cook, eat and pack out before it got dark around 9pm.

For Strasbourg, was nice to see some French again, although English and German generally spoken everywhere, potentially due to Germnay being so close and the place used to be German at least a few times.

It a nice old town centre though, of course the required spiral stairs to walk up and get the view, and outside the old town centre you can see a lot of the European Union buildings.

The target of the day however was to find some flammekucken (tartes flammbes) for dinner, and so at around 5-6pm we headed out of the city centre looking for a smaller village on the way back to Germany to have it.

However, driving through we found absolutely nothing.....whenever something was open it never had what we wanted! Eventually after asking at a pub, we were told places are never really open before 7pm and there was a place down the road from where we were.

So after a drink to pass the time to 7pm, sure enough once we walked back, it was not only open but getting very full! We got our flammekuchen, which is like a very thin pizza base, with bacon and onion and sauce on it, also we got a traditional and a couple varieties with cheese, very tasty, as was the local Alsace rose wine we had with it.

After that we drove back into Germany and the day in France was over, still very cool though that you can drive to another country for a day

Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/20090825Strasbourg#