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Strasbourg

New library of Strasbourg Spring 2006

January 4, 2007

View from our kitchen window in Strasbourg. Yesterday, the temperture inside our apartment was 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) for the majority of the day. After 8:00 P.M. it started to drop (a little). Keep in mind that in France most people do not have airconditioning in their homes. We do not even own a fan. [...]

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Life

July 18, 2006

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Summer flowers

July 17, 2006

Hôtel de ville, Strasbourg in Place de Broglie Google maps

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Around the Cathedral

July 16, 2006

Artists are always set up in front of La Poste near the cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg. If you would ever like to have your portrait drawn while visiting the Cathedral of Strasbourg, you will be able to select between at least four artists. Little tourist train that travels through the streets of Strasbourg.

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July 14th – Bastille Day (part 2)

July 15, 2006

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July 14th – Bastille Day

July 14, 2006

Place Broglie military presentation July 13th.

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France – Italy

July 10, 2006

We still have our French flag out in spite of last night’s defeat.

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Luc Arbogast singing in front of the Cathedral of Strasbourg

July 9, 2006

I was able to get a few photos of Luc Arbogast last week. He had a crowd of people around him as he sang songs from the 13th and 14th century. After asking the crowd to move closer to him and sit in a semi-circle, he sang with the crowd participating by teaching them to [...]

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Bunkers

July 8, 2006

While walking along the stream of Fosse des Remparts, you will find a few of these bunkers left behind from WWI (according to my husband who is pretty knowledgable on these matters). I love to poke around them and imagine what it was like to be locked inside “protected”, watching and waiting for the enemy. [...]

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Starving artist

July 7, 2006

This “starving artist” entertained the people passing by with his pleas to sell his works of art. He explained that he paid his rent with the small amount of money that he received each month (not sure from where). In order to support himself fully he needed to sell some of his paintings. Many people [...]

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Old Jewish cemetery

July 6, 2006

This cementery has been forgotten. It makes me sad that many of the tombstones have fallen over and that the grass is thin and yellow from the burning sun. All is left unkept and uncared for. History falls alone to the ground ignored by the present. The past of the people buried here are left [...]

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