2 days before Christmas

Back to Strasbourg and it is the weekend...crowds!  We are grateful for our refuge in situ. But after a cuppa, out we go.  Doesn't take us long to decide to leave the crowded Cathedral area.  On the periphery we heard music.  Good music.  Fewer people and a good vin blanc chaud (mulled white wine). Resting here for 30 mins or so was easy!

We then wandered home for a latish dinner for us, which let the crowds thin out. Once again thank goodness for our haven.

The markets here are so extensive. I don't know if you could explore the whole area. Like any market - there is a repetition of goods and much is commercially produced. In one little.square we found an area set aside for games - traditional games throwing ropes with wooden balls on the ends so that they wrap around a wooden frame (not a jogger around the power lines but same principle!)  

Somehow we are like homing pigeons because we were starting to feel tired when "Hey, I know where we are!" was the dual cry.  Home for a wine/hot chocolate and some Christmas treats.