Driving

Driving is something we did a lot of on the trip. We have definitely made longer trips, but in a tiny Opel you feel every minute of it. The drive from Freiburg to Paris was supposedly 5 hours. We got a late start, then stopped in Colmar (which is barely over the border) for some lunch and scenery. Colmar is a cute little Elsässer town that is mostly intact from the 1500s - meaning it was not destroyed in the war.

The rest of the drive was long but simple. The only adventure was when Dad took the wrong exit on a roundabout, and it was because there was construction on the exit we were supposed to take. For the record, the French loooove roundabouts. You exit a roundabout only to enter another.

Returning the car was also an adventure, due to poor roadsigns and bad directions. We found it eventually, then jumped in the largest taxi we could find and headed to the hotel.

My french pizza....covered in blue cheese.

Buildings in Colmar. They have so much character!

Candles in the cathedral

Dad got so excited every time he saw a panama hat!

Kitty in the window

Our GPS thought we were off-roading

This is a toilet. And simultaneously the worst idea ever. You squat over a hole and pee into it, in the most ungraceful manner imaginable. I'm glad this phenomenon doesn't exist in the US or Germany.

You could see the Cathedral of Sacre Coeur from our hotel window!