Travelling Texans: More Lovely Pictures

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures that I haven't posted, yet. Here is Angela on a slide at the little park beside the Rhine Falls in Switzerland. She looks like she is having a bit of fun, eh?

And my sweet husband... I was laughing so hard at this point because I looked much worse than he did, but he didn't get a picture of me. I was eating and apricot-filled sugar covered donut and had apricot all over my face and a bit on my jacket. He looked especially cute with all the white powdered sugar on his black jacket and a bit of cherry all over his face! This was also when we were in Switzerland a couple of days ago.

Now for a few pictures in France... the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg was very pretty... and inside was this very interesting clock. It had a little person that struck a bell to ring the hours... and apparently at 12:30 was the big show of the day when all the little interactive parts of the clock would move around. Unfortunately we were there too early for that and didn't want to wait an hour for it.

We wandered around the town a bit more and just next to the river, we saw this nice tree and decided to take Anna's picture here... so here is Anna in France.

Close to the tree, we saw people buying tickets for what looked like a fun boat ride... we checked it out and it was a reasonable price for over an hour boat trip around the town. The river was an offshoot of the Rhine and the boat was a nice glass enclosed, warm boat with little headphones to listen to the audio tour in English (or whatever language you preferred). The commentary on the audio guide was very interesting and the views were lovely. It said this next house was one of the most photographed places in Strasbourg.

And then the most umm... memorable bits of history we learned on the audio tour was about this tower where prisoners were tortured. It was apparently very bad conditions and the prisoners complained that they didn't even have straw to sleep on. It was also apparently bad conditions for the torturer. He sentenced for something while he was employed as a torturer and the sentence was to have his tongue cut out and then to be decapitated. But they said that he was granted a bit of a kindness by the next torturer, in that he decapitated him before cutting his tongue out! :O

Strasbourg has major influences of both French and German ancestry, due to the number of times it changed leadership over the years. You could see a lot of both influences in the city. This girl statue here is demonstrating the interesting hair dressing that seems to be traditional in the city.