Another Day Another City

Bonjour mes amis!

Je suis arrive a Strasbourg cet matin - - - whooops! Need to start talking English again. Not too many people in Colmar spoke English, which was pretty cool.

Took the train to Strasbourg this morning. It was uneventful enough (since I'll numb to all the schlepping) but when I arrived it was pouring! Had to wait about 30 minutes before I could even leave the station to get a taxi.

I'm actually in a very nice French hotel - the first nice hotel of the trip. Too bad it's only for 1 night. I walked around the city for a while. Mitch and I were here a few years ago and really explored it in depth then. I just roamed around for a few hours. Not much is open in France on Sundays except some museums and souvenir shops. All the shops are locked up tight:

The cathedral here is magnificent - from the 1200's - and the city is really pretty.

Have I mentioned that I'm really looking forward to getting home?- - - if for nothing else than to use an American keyboard! I'll never take that for granted again.

I expect that it will be a very chaotic zeek at work; I'm going to focus on getting back my laptop and getting it running again. So ironic that Jamie Diamond's (CEO of the Bank) whole strategy for the bank's success is based on technology and all the wonderful things it can do! I should send him an e-mail about these last 2 weeks. If it ever got to him he'd plotz when he saw what his techno-wizards did to me.

Looking forward to my last French dinner for a while.

My next posting should be from home.........assuming I can get to the internet.