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France/Spain 2011
Day 3 - 19th March - Strasbourg (Part 2)
Cathedral square
Strasbourg Cathedral
Cathedral front
Buildings came quite near to the cathedral, so there wasn't that much space in the square - and that much space for its full glory to be apparent
Strange band
Statue to Jean Baptiste Kleber, a general from the Revolutionary era. He was born in Strasbourg, naturally.
Homme de Fer (Man of Iron) tram station
They found a suit of armour (sans helmet) here in 1802. Apparently it's something to do with the Man in the Iron Mask (Masque de Fer).
Sluices of Ill River
Pont de Saverne
Tree and Ill River, with La Petite France in the background
Restoration of retaining walls of the "Covered Bridges"
"Ponts Couverts" ("Covered Bridges")
Island and Ill River
Riverside housing
Cute graffiti
Less cute graffiti
There was a wedding shoot:
La Petite France
Church poster: "Pourquoi la souffrance ? Et après ? Quel sens à ma vie ?
Et vous quelle question poseriez-vous à Dieu ?"
("Why is there suffering? What happens after [we die]? What meaning is there in my life? And you, what would you ask God?")
My local companion said there're more young people going to church nowadays.
Guy with very strange attire
Strange toilet with 2 private cubicles.
"These public conveniences are free of charge"
Why didn't they just translate "toilet"?
Place Winston Churchill
According to the street sign, he won a Nobel Prize. I didn't realise he won the Nobel Prize for literature.
At the back: library and médiathèque (media library)
For lunch I went back to my companion's place and tried West African food (the first time I'd had Sub-Saharan food, I think):
"Chiep". Tomatoes + oil + chicken + sticky rice
Halal Butcher which sells wine. And if I understood my companion right, it also sold pork.
There was a McDonald's in a half-timbered house. Or what looked like one, anyway.