Friday, August 04, 2006

The heart of the black forest

Saturday, July 22

Today Michelle and I, as well as Selja from Norway and Travis from the States, dragged ourselves out of bed early to head to Triberg in the heart of southern Schwarzwald and home to Germany's highest waterfalls. Changing trains in Offerburg we arrived in Triberg at around 1pm and walked from the station up through the centre of town to the entrance to the waterfalls' park.
We had a flash rain storm which subsided shortly after we took a break to eat our lunch. With the odd rain drop still taunting, we climbed up to the waterfalls, paddled in the mountain stream and wandered through the surrounding forest. We then headed down the backstreets back to the town centre where we found a café-conditorei where we ate the world-famous local speciality...

On the return journey we stopped over and spent an hour and a half in Offenburg, an average town with nothing particularly special about it, but worth the stopover nonetheless. We got back to Freiburg in time to meet the others for dinner after which we went to the Freiburg Downtown Street Party, a university-city style public festival in which all the cafés and bars spilled out into the crowded streets.

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