Clement’s AirBnB has everything we need including a garage barely wide enough for our car. Rather than futzing with the car we walked the 1½ miles to old town to get reacquainted with one of our favorite cities.
We crossed the River Ill (eye-el-el) under threatening skies and headed for the Cathedral, the place where we first met Nicole and Thaddeus in 2011. The plaza was packed with booths setting up for the Christmas Fair. All of Strasbourg, it seemed, was in holiday mode. Even the Cathedral had its share of Nativity creches but we were looking for its Astronomical clock. Twenty or so of us silently counted down towards two o’clock when . . . “Ding, Ding” and that’s all! We aren’t having very good luck with astronomical clocks.
Nothing looked quite like it had in late summer. We easily found Kammnerzell House where we had dinner with Nicole and Thaddeus. It’s the oldest restaurant in Strasbourg, dating from 1427. It took us two afternoons of scouting and we never felt like we had found everything our friends had shown us.