...And again!

Great news on both fronts today! The weather was clearer and the markets were gone. High time to go back into Strasbourg's old town and Petite France.

Day 2 of Strasbourg has now been added to the Flickr set:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/81692166@N05/sets/72157646084701283/

Today's plan was to do a bit more walking than yesterday. We also wanted to go to the Orangerie, which is a garden and park to the north of the centre of town.

We started off with much the same route as yesterday, taking similar photos (but not exactly the same) with a blue sky as the backdrop. The photos turned out much nicer today than yesterday, in my personal opinion:

Old-town Strasbourg in the sunshine

After originally thinking we might get the tram to the Orangerie, we decided to walk it instead, going down a couple of nice-looking streets in the process. The Orangerie turned out to be the park that all the locals go to to enjoy themselves, relax, or even go for a kayak on the lake:

Best from the Orangerie

Dad convinced me afterwards that we should walk back to the apartment, rather than getting the tram back instead. It was going to be a fairly long haul, past what I thought would be mostly the bland part of Strasbourg. That was mostly true, but it was late afternoon by this stage, the whole area looked pretty nice:

The walk back to the apartment

We went via the train station, which is famous for its bubble around the front. It was pretty nice on the outside, but as we were about to leave some seriously mean French army officers walked past carrying automatic weapons:

Offend them if you dare

We had decided that we would eat out tonight. I'd found a couple of local specialties, and a couple of decent restaurants. The first one we went to was closed for a 'summer holiday' of sorts, so we backtracked to a smaller one that looked like one the locals went to. The two dishes we had were 'Flammkuchen', a flat, onion-cream based pizza, and 'choucroute', a combination of local meats and sauerkraut. Hey TM, now we have something to call our Monday lunch!

Tomorrow we'll be heading to Colmar hopefully, which will be the last of our three days in Strasbourg. See you tomorrow!