Germany: Meet the neighboring town (pictures!). May 16, 2004

Well, a few weeks ago I decided to jump the border and head to France . Where they speak French. Well, I went there with an American friend named Taylor (who's do an intership here in Freiburg. Before December he couldn't speak a word of German, and he came here on a last-second offer! He wasn't expecting to go to Germany.).

So, Colmar is touristy and French. So we toured France. French is rel atively easy to read, because many English words come from French, but it is impossible to understand, but the entire sentence is one long w ord.

To show you how touristy it was, they ran tour boats town a little ri ver, and they called it "Little Venice".
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Boat.JPG
Or you could ride the high-speed French trains (assuming they aren't on strike):
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Train1.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Train2.JPG
And there were some pretty plants hanging around, if you're intereste d in that:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Flowers.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Trees.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Trees2.JPG
Or you can look at the fountains:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Fountain1.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Fountain2.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Fountain3.JPG
I think we took this word from the French language:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/InService.JPG
However, I think American service is still decades ahead of pretty mu ch anywhere else, as we really don't have any resources, so the only t he we have to sell is service.

Here is a picture of Taylor:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Taylor.JPG
And a picture of Taylor taking a picture:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Picture.JPG
Here is the river without the boat:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/River1.JPG
Or you can go to the fair:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/RoundAndRound.JPG

But I made a good decision. The decision was to stay dehydrated. Why would that be good? Because you have to pay to use the bathroom! This woman here is putting some money into the machine for her and her kid. http://www.ftper.com/Germany/Pics4/Toilette.JPG

Well, that was the fine city of Colmar. We stayed 4 or 5 hours, and t he travel cost 6 Euros for the both of us (however, we already had a r egion ticket, so it would have been more).

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