France

Sunday Morning Stroll in Strasbourg

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Strasbourg, France is a fabulous city, which manages to be compact and complex all at once.

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It has plenty of medieval charm, a jumble of French and German flavor,

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and a certain modern hum

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(found in modern art museums and the parliamentary seat of the EU).

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Beautiful and a bit dizzying, n’est-ce pas?

Chestnuts Roasting at the Cathedral Door

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Strasbourg, France

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I’ll forgive you for thinking that chestnuts roasting on an open fire and Jack Frost nipping at your nose are only Christmas time delights.  Here on the French-German border, they are the stuff of wintertime, even after St. Nick has packed up and headed home.

We spent a very cold weekend in Strasbourg, France, and found this chestnut roaster and his “heisse maroni” stand waiting for us outside the door of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Strasbourg.

Chestnut roasters are a sight I’ll always welcome.  Jack Frost, however, is growing tiresome.