Monday, December 1, 2014
Our farewell dinner and photo
Chuck and I woke at 4am to catch our flight from Basel Switzerland airport the next morning. What a fabulous trip it was! And with the 6 family members who joined us... it just made the trip that much more fun! I miss them already!
Day 7 - Fri Nov 28,2014 Black Forest
We docked in Breisach Germany and after breakfast disembarked for a scenic coach excursion through the beautiful Black Forest. This densely forested, mountainous region is famous for its traditional cuckoo clocks, cherry schnapps and is the setting for legends and fairy tales.
Day 6 on Thanksgiving Day was an excursion to Strasbourg France
The 7th largest city in France and on the border close to Germany, Strasbourg has an interesting history. The country has ping ponged between being a German city and a French city. Our guide told us her grandmother's nationality was changed 4 times during her life between being a French citizen and being a German citizen. She said overnight all the street names were changed and all the citizens' names changed. And the official language would change from French to German and back to French and so on! She said the people had a real identity crisis!
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