Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Getting lost in the Black Forest...












Freiburg. It was great. It was the Black Forest. I actually spent more time there than anywhere else on my trip. It was wonderful and relaxing. The Black Forest Hostel, where I stayed was really cute and nice...right next to the water so I had nice river sounds singing me to sleep every night.

Things I learned in Freiburg, butterbretlezs are AMAZINGLY TASTY, PotatoLand is truely wonderful, and I have been reinspired in my love of hiking. Two out of the 4 days I was there I went out into the magical forest which served as the setting to Hansel and Gretle's misadventures, and it was amazing...there were tons of fun hippy Germans wandering through the forest as well with their cute cross country walking sticks...no witches. It was just an all around good time. I've decided that I'm definitely coming back to Germany to do a hiking tour...I'll probably throw Swizterland in on it as well (although being here in Basel now is not rubbing me so well being that it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO expensive!).

Besides all that lovely forestness, I had my first spaghetti eis...what's that you wonder? It this lovely invention (as displayed below) that turns yummy ice cream into, at least esthetically speaking, spaghetti with sauce. YUM!

To complete the Black Forest experience, being that it is coo coo clock country...and I love the amazing tackiness of the coo coo clock, I indulged myself in buying one of my very own! It a beauty she is...I will definitely be brainstorming up a name. I bought the clock in Titisee, Black Forest Mecca of tourism, which is fine by me...it was on a pretty lake with lots of yummy restaurants where for the second time I had a tasty German treat called spatzle (egg based noodles basically), and my very first slice of the lovely Black Forest Cake...which goes something like schwarzwaldkirshtorte in German...what a mouthful!

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