May 8 - 9, 2006

Strasbourg

South, Up the Rhine, to Alsace

We took a quick detour from our initial list of cities to travel a bit up the Rhine river valley and visit Strasbourg.

Our interest was threefold:

Our Experience

While a lack of time (and the almost incessant rain) prevented us from doing a thorough exploration of the city, we did get a chance to whet our appetites.

After laundry at a local laundromat during the rain,

where we navigated the French instructions very well,

we walked to downtown Strasbourg, saw a bit of the old city, ate Indian food for dinner, and then trammed back, without a ticket since we could not figure out the machine.

Chocolate Secrets

We spent Tuesday morning at the Museum "Les Secrets du Chocolat." I (d) am now thinking that it might be fun to lead chocolate tours of Europe and South America, especially to visit all the chocolate museums--a book? Sure...We enjoyed the displays which were not too hokey

and actually relatively new.

Liquid [Chocolate] Lunch

Debbie tried the very thick hot chocolate "four ways" with the spices, adding ginger powder, orange syrup, cinnamon but avoiding the pepper and chile options. Whoa, it was so rich, she could not finish.

Mark tried espresso with a separate chocolate liquor, the thickness of pudding. They gave us freebie chocolates and we bought a few little things as well -- including chocolate beer, chocolate plastic bracelets and chocolate incense. Fun!!

And, as far as Jewish Strasbourg is concerned, there's plenty more to explore and learn.


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