A NEW BLOG HAS ARRIVED!

THIS BLOG HAS COME TO AN END AND A NEW ONE HAS ARRIVED: BLOGTROTTER TWO (NOT MUCH IMAGINATION...)!

The blog that now comes to an end was created to show some memories from the digital era travels around this not so small world. It shows what happened from November 2000 through January 2009: three hundred and forty flights, 515,719 miles flown and 1183 hours and 50 minutes in the air...

Nowadays travelling has gone to an even much slower pace and the new Blogtrotter Two hasn't so much to show... Anyhow, hopefully there will be some interesting posts on some known or less unknown destinations. Look forward to see you THERE!!

Of course, the Revival 70s & 80s as well as the Revival 90's will continue to be updated, though you don't pay any attention to them... There are, however, some true gems there... :-)

Hope that you enjoy the new blog at least as much as this one!

SEE YOU AT BLOGTROTTER TWO!

PS: Sorry my Followers; you'll have to move to the new location... ;)

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"