Tue, 30 Dec 2008

strasbourg-trip, day 02

day 02 startet in the harbour of strasbourg where a lot of
house-boates are anchored. on one of the boats i saw my first
cat here in strasbourg. unfortunately it was running away too
fast so i could not take a picture of it (i was pretty sad).
next to the harbour is the "orangerie" park with a bunker (or at
least we thought it was one), a big lake, and a public zoo that
seemed to raise storks. close to the park is the council of
europe. but today no one was there, so kempes and me were the
only ones there.

some pictures (to keep the readers from falling asleep) from...
...the harbour, the orangerie park, and the council of europe...
 
 

...and some more of the council of europe...
 
 

in the same area is also the tv station of "arte". we went in
there and drank a coffee and then walked on to the buildings of
the european parlament and the european court of human rights.

...and even some more of the european parlament, and the euro-
pean court of human rights.
 
 
 

afterwards we met tony again and went to a brasserie. we ordered
some "ordinary" stuff like a burger for kempes and pork meat
with mashed potatoes for tony and me each. kempes had to bring
some special beer brands (that seem to be available here only?)
to austria so we wanted to go to a super market. but it was
really hard to find one. actually, it's even very hard to find a
grocery store somewhere. in austria there are loads of those
stores everywhere, even placed right next to each other some-
times - here, not. so we jumped into the car and drove the
"nearest" supermarket, which took us about 20 minutes to get
there. inside we found out where all the people buy the goods
they need for their everyday life - in the supermarket. so there
were masses of people in this really really really (i mean it!)
huge store. at the checkout we had our next strange experience.
there were two female cashiers sitting back-to-back, each one
with a conveyor for the goods you want to pay. so we placed our
goods there and it took them ages to get them registered by the
barcode reader. in between the items they sometimes continued
their talk, so it took quite a while until they grabbed the next
item. the customers, on the other hand had the same attitude.
they slowly packed their stuff into the bags and once they were
done they slowly got out their purses to pay. so this all really
took ages. oh well, we're on holidays, so we have loads of
time...