Home of the Bretzel: The Alsace

I know what you're thinking..."Heather, you spelled pretzel wrong." Well, YOU are wrong. That is how you spell/say pretzel in French! The weird thing though, is that when you say that to them, they just repeat Pretzel with a P and look at you funny. Oh well.

This past week we took a trip to the Alsace area, which is right on the border of Germany. More specifically, we spent time in Strasbourg, Kaysersberg, and Reims. These towns are really small, but super cute. They are all about pretzels, storks, gingerbread, and all the buildings look like they are straight out of Beauty and the Beast. We didn't actually find that much to do, except look at the cathedrals and go on a boat ride, but it was still a good time. I unfortunately was sick for the trip, so I spent most of the trip in my bed or in the bathroom. Too much information? #sorrynotsorry

We also bought a giant gingerbread heart and shared it between like 10 of us. It was interesting because it was like actual gingerbread, not the crunchy cardboard crap we have in the U.S. It was like bread-like and much softer. It was a little stale, but even their stale stuff is better than ours. I ate literally the best pretzel of my life there, too. It had absolutely nothing on it except for like 3 pieces of salt, but it was amazing. There is also a Christmas market that is apparently pretty famous and goes on there every year, but we missed it by a few days. We were too early. We got to see them setting up for it though, and see some shops that had Christmas stuff.

We visited the Strasbourg cathedral, and the cathedral in Reims which were both very impressive. I have a cool picture pinned on Pinterest of the Reims one so it was really cool seeing yet another thing on my Pinterest board in real life. The one in Strasbourg was enormous, and I really liked that one. Oh, something else fun, it got dark at 5 pm. By the time it was like 9, it felt like midnight. It really messes with you.

It was a very relaxed trip, and exactly what I needed. It was really nice to get away from Paris for just a little bit before we had to come back to classes and exams. Wish us luck!

(Pictures to come...no one has posted any yet. And mine are really terrible.)