Lovely Strasbourg
This morning we took a taxi to St. Pancras in London, the train station our group was meeting at. It's a cool looking station (part of Harry Potter was filmed there!). We had breakfast, checked in with the tour guide, got some Euros (jeez..American money is so boring compared to Pounds and Euros haha) and hung around till it was time to board. Our group was seated in the same car..there's 30 something of us all together (we're the only Americans :P). Honestly, after seeing everyone, I was surprised. Some of them don't even look like they can hike..they're limping around, one guy looks like he had a stroke..basically all of them are old (I'm definitely the youngest in the group). Who knows, they might surprise me. We got to go through the Channel Tunnel! Cooool. After arriving in France we had to switch trains in Paris. We had to walk through the streets of Paris with all our luggage to another train station. Annoying, but cool, I got to see some of Paris haha (I went to Paris yeaars ago as a kid, but don't remember much of it). There were lots of restaurants/eateries along the way..IT SMELLED SO GOOD EVERYWHERE. Haha! We had an hour or two before the next train departed, so we had lunch and hung around. Eventually we boarded and headed for Strasbourg, 2 1/2 hours away I think (we're staying there for the night). All the little villages in the French countryside looked so cute! Way nicer than blah drab England. When we arrived in Strasbourg we walked across the street to our hotel, got our rooms, and then met again in the lobby and walked the 20 minutes to dinner (late dinner..it was after 8 PM!). Omg..I LOVE STRASBOURG! It's really, really nice and has a great atmosphere. I love the cobbled sidewalks/streets!! I like it WAAY better than London. And OMG IT HAS THE MOST EPIC CATHEDRAL EVER!!! When we were walking and turned the corner I was like "WHOAAAAAAA *gapes*" It's called Strasbourg Cathedral, and it is SERIOUSLY one of the most AWESOME churches I have ever seen!! (And I've seen kind of a lot of European churches!) It's 400 some feet tall..you just feel so small and insignificant staring up at it (like being at a glacier haha). We had dinner at a nice little restaurant (it kinda feels like when I went to Europe with People to People..having a planned menu and stuff). We heard the cathedral's bells too..AWESOME. I lovee church bells..they're so pretty!! After dinner we could do whatever we wanted (go back to the hotel and relax. :P Haha). Tomorrow we have free time in the morning before the train leaves and mom and I are totally gonna explore the cathedral. I bet there will be a lot of church bells ringing since it'll be Sunday! Then yay off to Switzerland!
