France                         Strasbourg               31 December 2024


   As part of our final European travels before New Year's, my friends
   and I headed to France, to the border city of Strasbourg.  As usual,
   we woke up at five in the morning, caught a train and reached our
   destination via Karlsruhe and Appenweier.  I must admit that upon
   arrival I unexpectedly felt at home: all those endless signs and shop
   fronts in French simply left me no choice but to feel otherwise.
   While the architecture might have resembled German style in places,
   France was easily recognisable by the shutters positioned on the
   outside of house windows.

   The Strasbourg Cathedral is visible from almost any point in the
   city, and we managed to visit it as well.  From the outside, it looks
   absolutely colossal.  And from the inside too.  Here's all you need
   to know about how wonderful the city is: over the course of the day,
   I walked a good thirty kilometres in total, and was almost constantly
   on the move, as there was no time to get bored.  In the evening, they
   switched on the street illuminations: it looked simply magnificent,
   especially when compared to Berlin, Stuttgart or my current city of
   residence.





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