What a terrible sleep. Sleep when it doesn’t come is a whole blog in itself. Everyone has been there so I shall only say, I empathise. It’s shitty.
We are berthed in Kiel and in the morning we bus to Strasbourg. I think i will get one of those power naps and nearly fall asleep on the bus but my head keeps doing that dropping off your neck thing and jolting me up. I wish I was short so my head could just rest back on the head rest but alas the head rest sits across my shoulders. The tour guide goes on and on and on and I am amazed at how she doesn’t even seem to draw breath.
Some fun facts, although so many are not fun. The stork is the emblem for the area of Aldeche where we are and souvenirs are adorned with it everywhere. They migrate to Africa every autumn and come back in Spring. They mate for life and in the Second World War there were only 12 couples and n ow there are 1000. A successful story. This part of France was annexed in the treaty with Germany and when it got tough for Germany they sent them all to war to fight for Germany. They couldn’t send them to fight against the French so they sent them to fight against the Russians. At the end of the war those remaining were sent to labour camps by the Russians. It’s sad. We will remember them. I learnt heaps of other stuff in the blah, blah, blah, and it is interesting but I am not going to regurgitate it in case you had to be here.
Strasbourg is pretty.
Of course it has a big, big, big, church. In fact this was the tallest (man’s made) structure in the world for quite a while. Even though my cathedral viewing is at its maximum limit I am impressed.
We ditch the tour and find a boat that sails the canals. It’s nice and we go up a lock and then down a lock. I love the locks they and there centuries’ old technology that still works today.
We disembark and have some lunch then keep on, keeping on. Walking. Looking. Seeing. Walking. I don’t find it has “Hansel and Gretel” as Colmar. It doesn’t have quite the same appeal but maybe that is the sleep thing.
That’s it for today.