A friend was visiting us this weekend and she wanted to visit Strasbourg so we decided today to hop on the TER train and go to this beautiful Alsatian city. When we got there we were welcomed by a very nice sunny day and while we were walking in the old city center I took this picture of the Place Kléber. This is the largest square at the center of the city, and there is an interesting historic fact: Even if the place is currently named after the French general Jean-Baptiste Kléber, the first name it had was Barfüsserplatz (square of the bare-feet-goers), because once there was a monastery along the square.

Last weekend I visited Strasbourg. I found a cheap flight to Frankfurt and then from there I took a couple of trains to get to that nice French city. Something I had read about and really liked was the "Jardin de deux rives", a shared park between the French and German countries (Strasbourg and Kehl). I had crossed some European frontiers by car before, but this is the first time I have done it by walking back and forth in less than 15 minutes. In this picture I'm looking at Germany from the French side.