Additional photos from Strasbourg, May 6

We have more pictures from our day in Strasbourg yesterday.

There are canals in Strasbourg in the area of town refered to at "Petite France."  This is the oldest part of Strasbourg still intact.

This is a "tanner's" house in the Petite France section of Strasbourg.  It was used by a tanner.  The gable part of the house has openings in the roof to allow air to circulate around the skins drying in the attic.

This is a statue of Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.  He was in Strasbourg for 10 years from 1434 to 1444.   As any good Chamber of Commerce does, Strasbourg is riding on his fame.  The German town of Mainz is where Gutenberg was born.  According to the people in Strasbourg, it is not known if Gutenberg invented the printing press in Strasbourg or just improved on his invention, but at any rate he lived here for 10 years and a printing industry sprang up in Strasbourg along with paper mills as a result of the invention of the printing press.

At the time this house was built, property taxes were based on how big your house was at ground level and how many windows the house had.  This house was built on a corner and had solid windows along the upper three floors on two sides of the house.  The person that built this house was wealthy and wanted everyone to know it.

Strasbourg was no slouch when it came to their cathedral.  As with most of the other cathedrals we have seen on this trip, this one took centuries to build as well.

One of the distictive features on this church is the lace-like gothic ornamentation on the exterior of the church.  The church is built out of sandstone.

Our lunch menu in the dining room onboard the boat.  Click on this picture a couple of times and it will get larger so you can read the type.

I had the Braised Chicken in Reisling Wine Sauce, Crispy Bacon & Potato Puree.  This was for lunch!  This is a picture of my entree.  Mary had the Organic Stuffed Zucchini with fresh goat cheese, olives and tomato ragout.  If you ate in the dining room for lunch, it was the same as with dinner.  Always a very nice presentation of the meal.

The Alsace region of France is known for its gingerbread.  In the afterrnoon we visited a place that makes gingerbread.  We were told the original gingerbread was bread with honey in it.

This is the room where we heard the explanation of how they make gingerbread.  The man on the left in the white shirt is the owner of this bakery.  The lady in the foreground with the dark hair was our guide and acted as an interpreter for the man from the bakery.  Mary is on the right in the green top.

The next stop on our afternoon tour of Alsace was at a winery.  We sampled 4 different kinds of wines starting with Reisling because it was the driest.  The last wine we tasted was the sweetest.  Before the tasting they took us to the wine cellar to show us the barrels they age their wine in and to explain about the different types of wine they make.  The barrels are made from oak.  The man in the black shirt is the owner of the winery.

Our dinner menu for Friday night, May 6.  I had the trout.  Mary had the beef.

Here we have proof that there is a moon in Germany.  Mary is pointing at the little sliver of the new moon.