Megan's rental bike, with the mountains in the background
Megan came to visit, all the way from Maine! She came the day after we got back from Greece, and stayed for four days. We hung out, went to some of the local hotspots, cooked dinner together and she even came to class with me! But the best day was the very first day she was here, when we biked all the way to a neighboring town. It was gorgeous - we rented a bike for Megan while I used my klunker, and biked about an hour out of the city proper. You can't tell by looking at it, but the entire way out of the city is slightly uphill. Fortunately it is a gorgeous ride. We biked to this town, stopped for ice cream, then grabbed some fresh farmer's strawberries and ate them by the river.
Megan and her bike!
My sweet ride. Please notice the skull sticker right under the headlight. I didn't put it there.
Ice cream!
The river
One of my projects this semester was about legends of Freiburg. Here are two of them. The picture above is a Schwabian man who wanted to buy the city of Freiburg for himself. He brought all of his gold to Freiburg, loaded in three wine kegs. But when he opened them up to buy the city, he discovered that his wife had changed the gold for stones (or sand, depending on the legend). And thus, Freiburg remained free, not Schwäbisch, and Catholic.
Another of the legends concerns the witch hunt, which is commemorated by this plaque on Martin's Tor (one of the old city gates). In the 1500s, Freiburg was in the middle of a huge witch hunt, which was exacerbated by the fact that every accused witch had to point out another witch. The story is that three women knew that they had all been accused, and when pressed for other witches, only named each other. This way, they successfully halted the witch hunt in Freiburg. Pretty neat, huh?
The Seepark, a park near my dorm
People like to jump off this bridge into the water. I wouldn't do it, personally. People also sunbathe here topless, something else I wouldn't do.
Lily pads in the Seepark. And turtles!
Freiburg from the Schlossberg, our local mounatin
Rainbow.
Megan's rental bike, with the mountains in the background
Megan and her bike!
My sweet ride. Please notice the skull sticker right under the headlight. I didn't put it there.
Ice cream!
The river
One of my projects this semester was about legends of Freiburg. Here are two of them. The picture above is a Schwabian man who wanted to buy the city of Freiburg for himself. He brought all of his gold to Freiburg, loaded in three wine kegs. But when he opened them up to buy the city, he discovered that his wife had changed the gold for stones (or sand, depending on the legend). And thus, Freiburg remained free, not Schwäbisch, and Catholic.
Another of the legends concerns the witch hunt, which is commemorated by this plaque on Martin's Tor (one of the old city gates). In the 1500s, Freiburg was in the middle of a huge witch hunt, which was exacerbated by the fact that every accused witch had to point out another witch. The story is that three women knew that they had all been accused, and when pressed for other witches, only named each other. This way, they successfully halted the witch hunt in Freiburg. Pretty neat, huh?
The Seepark, a park near my dorm
People like to jump off this bridge into the water. I wouldn't do it, personally. People also sunbathe here topless, something else I wouldn't do.
Lily pads in the Seepark. And turtles!
Freiburg from the Schlossberg, our local mounatin
Rainbow.
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