So, despite the difficulty getting there, Freiburg is a very nice city. Its tiny, I can walk across it in less than 20 minutes, so yeah, its tiny, but a lot fits into it. The best thing is the canals, tiny little things that run along the sides of many of the roads.
I spent most of the day in the Old Town, pretty much wandering aimlessly. I went into a few book stores, got myself a German grammar book, wandered into a lot of other shops – jewelry, papeteries, tpy shops etc. and, of course, spent a lot of time looking at the pretty streets.
There was a market (woohoo!) outside of this old church, where I had a bretzel (one of those gigantic pretzel things, except yummier because its in Germany)
One special flavor of this market that I haven’t seen elsewhere were toy stalls – lots and lots of toys – yoyos, tops, dolls, marbles, wooden trains, it was really fun.
Of course, I then had to visit the church. (Der Münster). Its big and beautiful, like most European churches (not all…but most)
After much more wandering through the old town, I wandered down the Dreisam, the river in Freiburg.
And then went up Schlossberg, this mountain (hill, really) that’s kind of in the center of town. (ok, really the edge, I just managed to walk around it before I got onto it…skills…). I was too lazy to go to the top, but there’s a nice viewing place (Kanonenplatz) not too far up, where I could see lots and lots and lots of roofs.
After Schlossberg, I started moving slowly back towards the hostel and stopped by a pair of street musicians. It was a saxophonist and a hurdy gurdy player and pretty cool AND they played the Waltz from Amelie, so I was quite happy just standing and listening for a while
And then back to the hostel – roommate was a very very very outgoing Scottish person, which was kind of fun…I also met a French person and practiced French for a little bit…I love hostels!
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