Auntie Geek is visiting us during her birthday and once again helping a lot while we move (she spent the Christmas holidays helping us move out of our house). However, since this move involves a lot less stuff we have a little more time for fun.
On Saturday we decided to go to Strasbourg, France. We had visited Strasbourg once before in 2000 and Auntie Geek had never been there so it sounded like a fun place to go. It was a 2.5 hour train ride with a transfer in Basel and we were in the land of Euros and more importantly, tarte flambée. We had a quick lunch in a busy-looking sandwich shop. Grilled slices of bread were topped with jambon and fromage (ham and cheese), salmon and sauerkraut, or goat cheese. Then we spent the afternoon wandering the streets and admiring the Cathedral, La Petite France (an area with canals and timbered buildings) and drooling at the food in the windows of bakeries. LGG had a couple of rides on the carousel and we watched a "sweeping Winter away" parade with witches and brooms. The main reason we went to Strasbourg was for the tarte flambée which was as yummy as we remembered.
On Sunday we returned to the Uetliberg to walk to Saturn. Rather than continuing on to visit the rest of the planets, we turned back and walked down the steep trail to Albisgütli, which LGG did all by herself. Then we met one of ZDG's colleagues at the Sprüngli Cafe at Paredeplatz for coffee, hot chocolate, and pastries.
This morning was the handover of the keys and the delivery of our stuff. One of ZDG's colleagues also helped us take a couple loads of flat packed IKEA furniture over to the apartment and then ZDG and Auntie Geek spent the afternoon building LGG's loft bed and chairs. We'll finish moving everything over tomorrow morning with the rental car and continue building. Tonight's our last night in this apartment.
We're not sure when we'll have internet access at the apartment, but we'll be blogging again as soon as we can.
