Am I Gonna Need Breadcrumbs for This? (A Few Days in Strasbourg)

I've been to some pretty amazing places, but I've never been to a city as picturesque as Strasbourg. Everywhere I turned were 13th and 14th century timber-framed buildings, swans in canals, and people biking across bridges, flowers in their baskets. I was half expecting to see Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel and Gretel wandering through the tiny cobbled streets.

A View of "la petite france" from the Boatarama Boat tour

There is a quarter in Strasbourg called "La Petite France," a particularly fariytale-esque neighborhood where I spent as much time as humanly possible during my stay. The rest of Strasbourg was amazing too. It felt more like a movie set than a real place. The buildings looked like they were hundreds of years old. I kept reminding myself that the buildings were stacked and tilted ontop of eachother because they really were hundreds of years old. Turns out Louis XVI stayed at a hotel that looked modern to me. Shows what I know.

I'm traveling solo, which is relatively new for me. Everyone told me you'd just meet people on the road and for some reason I didn't believe them. But sure enough, my first night in Strasbourg I met Molly. She is also teaching English through TAPIF. Molly was super nice and we stayed together for the two days we were both in Strasbourg. We visited the Cathedral and saw its famous astronomical clock move at midday, took a boat tour on the canal, and wandered down the city streets. I especially liked the city lit up at night. The medieval houses looked so cozy with the bright windows and lights reflected in the canals.