"I live not in dreams, but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Friday, December 31, 2010

Strasbourg, France! <3

One of the great perks of living in Stuttgart, Germany is living only 1 hour from France!!! So, of course, Jetta and I had to make a trip to the land of croissants and chocolate! Yum!

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We drove over with my family on the Thursday after Christmas, and then stayed for the next day touring one of my favorite cities in all of Europe (at least of what little I’ve seen so far)… Strasbourg! <3 The weinarchtmarkt was winding down after the Christmas holidays, but there were still plenty of gorgeous decorations, food, and wine to go around! We spent the afternoon hanging out and touring all the big sites with Drayton and Melissa… And then after my family left we settled into our hotel before heading back in to enjoy Strabourg by night! I’m so happy we stayed, because the city lit up by night was absolutely breathtaking… We found a great little back-streets French creperie for dinner, and then had hot wafflen and nutella crepes from the street vendors… We spent the evening just walking (for as long as our cold feet would allow) and eventually settled in the corner of a little bar to waste away the rest of the evening…. The next morning we woke up and wandered into the city again and found an amazing little farmer’s market in the Place de Kleber… We ate far too many croissants for breakfast and wandered the streets vendor/sourvenir shopping for the rest of the day before catching our train back to Germany for New Years Eve… :)

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The Bird family (minus Carolyn) in Strasbourg! <3  

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Mmmmmmm…. Backerei! YUM!

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On one of our train switches coming back to Germany the station was completely deserted… And this was what we found at our platform… A little sketch??! Haha :) Good thing Jet and I like a good adventure!

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So in short… Our experience in France was exactly what it should have been…. We ate, and then drank, and then ate some more… Slept, and then ate, and ate some more… C'était magnifique!!!

With Love from France… Mary Elizabeth <3

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