This morning I got up early as the workers were arriving at work. There goes the baker with his tray like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell. Every morning is the same, since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town.
Bread and cheese and coffee for breakfast. We set off the morning with a few things to do – coffee at a cafe, check out the train platform for later, check out the boat tour and check out luggage storage. We ended up not going on the boats as they were all booked. Something strange happened here over night – it is like it exploded with people. Then, the bells started – all the bells in the whole city went for 15 minutes at 9:15, 10:15 and 11:15. It was so loud you couldn’t talk. Colleen can’t hear me at the best of times – she says I mumble, I say she needs her hearing checked. It’s probably both – we sound like our parents.
The food places all were open as usual, but none of the shops. We finally asked – it was the ascension holiday. Then the people started arriving – by tour bus full. Tour bus people feel like cruise ship people only in smaller groups and they were everywhere. We hadn’t anticipated the crowds today so everything was booked. We kind of wandered around looking for Belle. No luck but I’m sure we saw her house.
The Cathedral in Strasbourg is also called Notre Dame. When it was built it was the tallest building in the world. When we arrived this morning the fire department was there – not for a fire, but for a photoshoot. Colleen was hopeful that they would take off their shirts for the photos but disappointedly it was only for fully clothed firefighters.
We had a sit down lunch and watched people and then went back for the train journey to Paris – the next leg of the trip home. The train ride was uneventful. I put the bags up above but on the other side of the train where we could see them and I locked them together. No repeat AirTag story today.
Our airport hotel tonight is the CitizenM hotel. It is really funky. The rooms are tiny – only slightly bigger than our room on the boat. The shower and toilet are a unit made of frosted glass. Not very private. Everything is red and white. All the lights and blinds are controlled from an iPad – we can change the color of the lights in the shower. There is even a colour matching game to play – with lots of distractions.
Tomorrow it is off to Calgary. At this moment we are standby number 4 & 5 and there are 11 standbys and 9 open seats. Hope we make it…
Plan B might be Paris…
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