Freiburg, Tuesday 13th May

Peter outside the art museum. Our first coffee stop

Today was a day full of museums and walking.  Freiburg is busy but not frantic.  The streets of the old town have virtually no traffic, other than bikes and trams and most of the tourists are German.  There is a very laid back atmosphere.  We were late to breakfast - 10.00am!  Then we visited the Tourist Office across the square from the hotel and collected a small map. We has coffee on the terrance outside the Modern Art museum,  a small but very interesting museum with an extraordinary exhibition of puppets. Lunch was white asparagus and potatoes beside a stream, then on to the Augustinier museum (early Christian art), not much to our liking but the roof structure on the 3rd Floor was beautiful.  Then we walked to find a restaurant for the evening.  A quick visit to the Cathedral where we lit a candie for Rupert (a thing he like to do in cherches in France when he was little) and then we stopped for lemon tea and cheese cake before a visit to the natural history museum.  Pity we has no small grandchildren with us as the museum was exceptional.   All the museums today were free and  virtually empty! More guards than visitors.

Poster for the puppet exhibition

Our lunch stop

We at at a restaurant on Konvictstrasse called Lichtblick and had a good meal - good service and surroundings, a healthy buzz.  I has foie gras followed by rabbit and wild mushroom risotto.  Peter had a small salad and then swordfish.  We both finished with apple strudel and ice cream. We asked for de-caf coffee but were not sure we got it as we both has trouble sleeping! 

Lunch

Outside our bedroom window men digging up the road began work at 7.30.  The bells rang the hours, the quarter, the half and the three quarters throughout the night! 

My dinner - rabbit and risotto

Small water courses

The streets of Freiburg have small canals or water courses running through them.  Sometimes there are metal 'crossing' places, otherwise people just step over them.  Small children paddle or pull along little sailing boats.  Occasionally there are decorations!