France. The country of fashion, expensive wines and cheese, and snobby people. Stereotypes? Yes. False? Nope. Not in my opinion. BUT - not all bad things. I had a great time in Strasbourg with some great friends - one of which happens to be french and our tour guide for the weekend. Clement (frenchie) put together a plan for about 13 of us to take a 2day/1night trip to the edge of France and see some touristy sights including a gigantic, beautiful cathedral and "Petite France" - a small section of town teeming with half-timber houses, restaurants and wineries on the river, and swans. Wild swans in the river. Yep.
We spent the days we had wandering out to see the sights aforementioned as well as the current seat of the European Parliament and some other political offices. Saturday night while we were there we had some drinks in our hostel as a group and then went out and partied all night at a club - Se7en. Below are my two favorite pics of the scenery.
The food was also really delicious - and expensive. We went for a 3-course lunch at a top restaurant when we arrived that Clement had booked (and neglected to warn us about the price...) Oh well - it was super delicious! I had a salad and onion pie for appetizer, fish and noodles for entree, and creme brulee for dessert. Apologies for lack of `'s above my french letters. I also had Flammkuchen which is basically a french version of a very thin pizza- except replace the sauce with a not-so-sour cream. Great food!!
-=Here's a couple of us snagging a photo at the club from the photographer=-
Sorry for not warning you about the prices of the first restaurant :D, what was written online was much lower :o.
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