Grüße aus...Freiburg!

Karl and I ended 2006 by spending the day in Freiburg. I had already taken a couple of trips to see Freiburg, which is an hour south of us, but Karl had never been. So I took him so he'd stop his whining.

Freiburg is home to a large university (founded in 1457), whose students are apparently very into organic foods (or so says my German instructor who graduated from there). It's a beautiful, old city on the edge of the Black Forest.





We first visited their huge, well-known Farmer's Market surrounding the cathedral. Such amazing-looking food and bread and flowers and handmade pasta and olives and bratwurst....We bought a quarter of a HUGE loaf of rustic bread (and even then it went bad before we could finish it) and had a yummy and very German lunch of bratwurst and then went inside their famous cathedral.





The church was beautiful! It was begun to be built about 1200 and finished in 1513 (after changing the architectural plans to a more "modern" Gothic and financial delays).



For the rest of the afternoon, we walked around the old part of Freiburg, through it's quaint streets and shops. It's a beautiful city!