{"id":897,"date":"2012-07-13T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=897"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:19:22","slug":"strolling-around-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/07\/13\/strolling-around-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Strolling Around Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our tour guide extraordinaire, Maxime, had too much work with the hotel re-opening today, but he very generously lent us his car and sent us off to Strasbourg with a map.\u00a0 Rodney and I both found it really strange being on the right side of the road, but with our front-seat positions reversed.\u00a0 With Rodney now on the centre white line and me in the gutter, we found\u00a0ourselves wandering occasionally too\u00a0close to the gutter; all the time he has driven Eileen in Europe, he\u00a0has driven perfectly positioned in the right lane.\u00a0 We stuck to the motorway in to Strasbourg and fortunately managed to find a car park fairly close to the cathedral.<\/p>\n

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Strasbourg Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We had a huge continental breakfast in an old caf\u00e9 and nearly managed to eat it all, then we strolled off around the lovely half-timbered city.<\/p>\n

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In Strasbourg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We managed to get inside the enormous and dark cathedral for a good look around before they closed it at 11:22am, after that you have to pay to go inside because the huge astronomical clock ‘does its thing’ at midday and there is a short documentary beforehand.\u00a0 It seemed very strange seeing so many tourists being shooed out of a cathedral, but we followed the flock\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

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I love a good gargoyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On Pont St Martin in Strasbourg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We spent hours wandering the streets, gazing up at all the old buildings and enjoying the ambience of the city, especially when the morning showers had passed over. Then we nipped back to Max\u2019s car before the car park ticket ran out and drove back to Obernai.\u00a0 There is an enormous cross on a hill above Obernai, a World War II memorial; we stayed up there for quite a while gazing out at the enormous view over the city and valley below.<\/p>\n

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The view over Obernai towards the Vosges Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a bit of a rest and the first bath in ages, back in our lovely room, we wandered along to the restaurant.\u00a0 We ate a really lovely meal, which somehow ended up being\u00a0three courses, plus extras, and the we waddled out to the bar to meet Max; both of us\u00a0feeling like a couple of stuffed geese.\u00a0 The only drink we could manage in the bar was a coffee for Rodney and a mint tea for me.\u00a0 We were so full and swore we would eat nothing the next day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our tour guide extraordinaire, Maxime, had too much work with the hotel re-opening today, but he very generously lent us his car and sent us off to Strasbourg with a map.\u00a0 Rodney and I both found it really strange being on the right side of the road, but with our front-seat positions reversed.\u00a0 With Rodney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8177,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/8177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}