Strasbourg

Our trip to trace the wartime path of the 13th Field Artillery Observation Battalion has begun.  Our first night after leaving Fellbach, Germany, was spent in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.  

 We shared the city that evening with the European Parliament, and thus paid a doubled price for our room at the Ibis Hotel, downtown. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the time there, especially seeing the High (late) Gothic cathedral, and later chatting with an interpreter named Charles, from Northern Ireland, with whom we shared a bottle of Savignon Blanc that evening at the hotel.

Meanwhile Alex went out for a beer and conversation at a local bar.

(Thanks to Valer, our home in New Hampshire remains warm and secure!  Mersi, prieten!)

Shirl and Alex watch the ducks on the river in Strasbourg

And here, next to the cathedral, was a street sign revealing the importance of the events we were there, in France, to commemorate: