Camper around Alsace - Second Parte - Strasbourg

(follows from First part)
Montagne Verte ... the camping  is on the outskirts of Strasbourg, from here you can reach the center by a convenient bike path (along the river) or with bus+tram (2 bus stops and tram 5) in both cases about 20/25 minutes (we recommend daily ticket)

Strasbourg Cathedral

Given the time we leave for the center by means, inter alia, the girls are having fun during the trip. We arrive at the station "Homme de ferre", the center and in walking distance to the cathedral we (the tourist office is in this square). One of the biggest in France, the church is in Gothic style with 3 aisles and over the splendor of times and rosettes, is to enjoy the great astronomical clock housed on the right of the altar. Every 15 minutes the characters move lower and every hour the main part (definitely worth seeing). We go out and we realize that Strasbourg is not only the seat of the European Parliament, but it is still a beautiful city on a human scale in which the channels and the Petite France are the tip of diamanate.

La Petite France, once the district where they were treating the sexual diseases for which they were attributed to France, is a gem. The houses are held very well  and the small alleys alternating bridges over the canals make the area a pleasure to discover step by step.


an incident for my baby obliges us to go to the hosplital, but we are lucky and it is only a great fear

Back at the center, we take the trip to the boat tour. The river route around the center is worth the ticket. We walk in a clockwise direction the canals that surround the old city and, using two locks, we reach the barrier that gives life to the channels. From the boat you appreciate the defensive structures of the city in addition to the magnificent facades of the houses. There is no area that you can say bad. The tour lasts 70 minutes and arrives at the palace of the European Parliament, a small taste of what we're going to see tomorrow. At  18pm, after 10 hours around the city we are tired and we return to the camper.

Carousel

For the baby in trasbourg there is a beautiful old-style carousel with two floors, located in the square next to the cathedral is worth the ticket price (2 € per turn). You will find other rides here and there in the same style but with one floor and smaller




The next morning the symptoms of the fall of Martina slowly disappear and we we settle the bill at the campsite (22 € 3 persons + light per day) and we go in the direction of the European Institutions.

EU Building

The main buildings of the European Parliament are 2 one of which, more recently, built of iron and glass is really nice. We park in the bus area, a sporting event has blocked the parking space provided, and one at the time we go to visit the interior of the structure. The visit is exciting, before the European Parliament waving the flags of the 27 states and members here on a face you will see in every language, the phrase "your peace, our award" for the Nobel  received by the EU in 2012.

The main building is around a big courtyard that can be accessed. All around you can observe the work of the various offices and a series of panels are positioned on the radius of the court to remember the history of Europe, we saw one for the depth of Auschwitz (vedi anche Foto di Viaggi - Per non dimenticare)

EU Building

We spend about an hour and a half to observe the two buildings and then we continue our visit to the city going to look for the establishment of Kronenburg (I'm thirsty and it seems to me an excellent destination). Assuming that we can find is in the neighborhood Cronenburg, but upon arrival we are gripped by the disapointment of an older facility and where it is not possible to make any visit (but then why is it written in the map tourist office "visit our factories and Kronenburg Heineken "?, some days after we will discover that not even Fisher, now owned by Heineken, can be visited).

Kronenbug

Disappointed and thirsty abandon interim basis Strasbrugo and head in the northern region in the direction Wissemburg ... continua