LA PETITE FRANCE

THIS IS MY POST NUMBER FIVE HUNDRED ON ALL BLOGS, AND MOST PROBABLY THE LAST TO BE PUBLISHED ON TRIPS HERE!! A NEW BLOG WILL BE CREATED SOON TO SHOW MORE RECENT TRIPS!!

Meanwhile, a reminder:
Blogtrotter Revival 70s & 80s has wonderful posts of some beautiful people thirty years younger and at least twenty pounds thinner,
and
Blogtrotter Revival 90s has also some fabulous views.
Don’t miss!! :-)

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STRASBOURG - JANUARY 2009

The Pont St-Martin, near the restaurant seen on Smilebox in the last post, marks the beginning of the district known as La Petite France (Little France), where the city's millers, tanners and fishermen used to live.



"OLD & NEW - Mix of buildings at the entrance of Petite France"


"REGENT PETITE FRANCE - My favourite hotel in Strasbourg..."



"MAISON DES TANNEURS - Also known as «Gerwerstub», the Maison was built in 1572. Formerly a tannery, it became a restaurant in 1949 and was restored in 1972 for its fourth century anniversary"



"ILL RIVER CANAL - Near the Hotel Regent and the Maison des Tanneurs"



"RUE DU BAIN AUX PLANTES - Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century houses with carved woodwork"


"LA PETITE ALSACE"


"DORURE, RESTAURATION & PEINTURE"



"PONTS COUVERTS - At the far end of a series of canals are the Covered Bridges, built as part of the fourteenth-century city fortifications and still punctuated by watchtowers. Just beyond is a dam built by Vauban to protect the city from waterborne assault"



"DAM"



"ILL RIVER"


"TREE"


"BOOKS, TREE AND CHURCHES - Counter-clockwise: Au coin Litéraire, Petite France Tree, St. Thomas, St. Jean and St. Pierre le Neuf"


"PALAIS DE JUSTICE - Professional deformation"

STRASBOURG IN WINTER

STRASBOURG - JANUARY 2009

(EDITED: Just removed the YouTube video that was no longer working...)


"ALPS - View from the airplane on the way to Frankfurt"


"MORE ALPS - The views came out quite well on this sunny winter day... Don't miss them and turn the speakers on"


"SAINT PIERRE LE JEUNE - One of the most important church buildings of the city, it has been Protestant since 1524"


"PLACE KLÉBER - 9:00 A.M."



"TEMPLE NEUF - Another Protestant temple"


"PLACE DE LA CATHÉDRALE"


"CATHEDRAL - Its construction started in 1176 and lasted for centuries. According to Wikipedia, the North Tower, «at 142 metres, it was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874, when it was surpassed by St. Nikolai's Church, Hamburg. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world»"


"CATHEDRAL'S FAÇADE - The famous west front, decorated with thousands of figures, is a masterpiece of the Gothic era"


"STAINED GLASS - Exterior"



"CATHEDRAL - Seen from South"



"ROHAN PALACE - Façade facing the Ill River. Built between 1731 and 1732, it represents the high point of local baroque architecture. It houses three of the most important museums in the city since the end of the 19th century: the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, as well as the Gallery Robert Heitz"


"PLACE COCHONS DE LAIT"


"ILL RIVER AND PLACE DES COCHONS DE LAIT"


"ILL RIVER AND BRIDGE"


"CATHEDRAL - From the River"



"FAÇADES - On a blue sky"


"LAHKÄS - Introduction to the Gourmet Section"


"GOURMET - Au Crocodile: founded about 1790 as the Cafe Viennois, it had three Michelin stars but lost one some years ago. Legend is that the name was changed to Le Crocodile when Jean-Baptise Kleber, a general in Napoleon's army, brought a crocodile back from Egypt and offered it to the restaurant. Pâtisserie Christian: two different locations in buildings of the 16th and 18th centuries. Jeff de Bruges: chocolate also in Strasbourg. Hotel Regent Petite France: my favourite in Strasbourg. For the «À l'Oiseau de France» and the next page «Maison Kammerzell», «Au Pont Saint Martin», «Aux Bons Crus d'Alsace», «L'Ancienne Douane» et »La Maison des Tanneurs», there are lovely buildings and mixed feelings on the food... Buerehiesel is missing on the photos, not in the memories... Less expensive, «Le Tire Bouchon» is nice"

FOR THE RECORD...

FROM NOVEMBER 2000 THROUGH DECEMBER 2003

The last post concludes the period from November 2000, when the digital photo era started, through December 2003. Though there were many trips recorded, a lot of them left no trace at all, at least in the photo mode. So, the only way to have a memory of these times is to register them here. This is the purpose of this post. And here they are:

- December 2000: Lisbon, London, Oslo, Paris, Bogota, Cartagena de las Indias (a superb old town within the walls), Miami, London, Lisbon. Some videos were made, but the only photos available are from the meeting held in Cartagena... Here it is one:



- March 2001 - Brussels. No photos, no videos...
- April 2001 - Hong-Kong and Macau. Some videos...
- May 2001 - Vienna. No photos, no videos...
- May 2001 - Amsterdam. Nothing...
- June 2001 - Twice in Paris. Nothing...
- September 2001 - Paris. Nothing...
- September 2001 - Lisbon, Zurich, Sao Paulo, Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon. The only memory from this periple is the group photo of the meeting in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia...



- September 2001 - Brussels. Nothing...
- October 2001 - Luxembourg. Nothing...
- October 2001 - Washington, DC. I found some photos and create a new post with some of them - WASHINGTON D.C. AFTER 9/11...
- December 2001 - Strasbourg. Nothing...
- January 2002 - Vienna. Nothing...
- March 2002 - Paris...
- March 2002 - Washington DC...
- April 2002 - Brussels...
- June 2002 - Brussels...
- June 2002 - Paris...
- June 2002 - Strasbourg...
- September 2002 - Madrid...
- September 2002 - Paris...
- October 2002 - Valencia, Spain...
- October 2002 - Paris...
- November 2002 - Rome...
- November 2002 - Cyprus. I found some photos and created a new post - Cyprus, Mystery Island - which was included in cronological order...
- November 2002 - Brussels...
- January 2003 - Brussels and Bruges. I found some photos and created a new post - LE PLAT PAYS...- which was also included in cronological order...

And that's all. But it's a lot isn't it?
Actually I'm definitely missing some of this travelling...