We are spending most of our sabbatical in Strasbourg, a city about 4 hours east of Paris near the Swiss and German borders. It is a city with a fascinating history, a truly unique architecture and good public transit.
In the third week of our stay, on the twelfth consecutive cold and rainy day, I went online to the tourism office to try to figure out what people do in a city where you can never be outside and this is what I found:
“The reputation of Strasbourg as a cold and rainy region is totally unfounded. To convince you of it, just look at the pictures below…”
There was one picture below, and all it proved was that there was at least one sunny day in Strasbourg since the website was created in 2000. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but it always catches me off-guard when organizations meant to help people so blatantly lie. Just for the record, it is now June. It snowed here yesterday.
Strasbourg Department of Tourism:
http://www.ot-strasbourg.fr/htm_uk/accueil.htm
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- k.
- I am a photographer and freelance writer with a passion for Paris. I love designing, creativity, learning, and innovation. I've lived in Paris three times at various stages of my life, and enjoy sharing the very best that Paris has to offer (as well as some standard recommendations that should be avoided). In addition, I have an online store called The Left Bank (on Etsy.com) which enables me to share my photography in new and interesting ways. www.theleftbank.etsy.com
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