Visit Strasbourg at Christmas Time or Any Time!
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a trip report with Annie and her husband David. Strasbourg is a great city to visit any time of year. But since we went between Christmas and New Year, we wanted to give you a head's up. Here are some of the best things we think you should do in Strasbourg at Christmas time (or any time):
Table of Contents for this Episode
- [00:00:16] Intro
- [00:00:34] Today on the podcast
- [00:00:57] After the show
- [00:01:10] Podcast supporters
- [00:01:28] Newsletter
- [00:01:57] David and Annie, trip report
- [00:02:30] Alsace between Christmas and New Year
- [00:02:51] The flight
- [00:03:27] Very expensive taxi into the city
- [00:04:19] Take the train into the city
- [00:05:00] Hotel Mercure Petite France
- [00:05:24] La Cigogne for Breakfast
- [00:06:33] Seeing the Astronomical Clock in the Cathedral
- [00:08:49] The idea for the astronomical clock
- [00:13:04] The Cathedral tower
- [00:13:43] Guided Tour
- [00:15:12] Barrage Vauban
- [00:15:33] Chez Yvonne vinstub
- [00:16:40] “The Fork” the app
- [00:17:20] Obernai
- [00:19:37] Train cancelled
- [00:21:03] Colmar
- [00:21:57] Vinstub Brenner
- [00:24:36] Unterlinden Museum
- [00:25:50] Train troubles on the way back to Strasbourg
- [00:27:34] Œuvre de Notre Dame Museum
- [00:30:22] Musée de la Ville de Strasbourg
- [00:32:23] Vodoo museum
- [00:35:56] Italian food for dinner
- [00:36:50] Consider doing the Wine Route
- [00:37:20] River cruise in Strasbourg, Batorama
- [00:38:49] Some comments from patrons
- [00:41:31] When to visit Strasbourg
- [00:42:41] European Parliament was closed
- [00:44:07] Thank you patrons
- [00:45:09] Preparing a trip to France?
- [00:45:51] Self-guided tours
- [00:47:30] Tickets for the Ramses Expo
- [00:48:08] Michelin new guide
- [00:52:34] Michelin Guide website
- [00:56:23] Next week on the podcast
- [00:56:53] Copyright
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The This is |
| 0:15.7 | This is Join Us in France episode 431 |
| 0:19.7 | 431 |
| 0:20.3 | Kattress-St. |
| 0:21.7 | Bonjure I'm Annie Sarheid and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:27.0 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, |
| 0:31.5 | gastronomy, and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:35.1 | Today I bring you a conversation with my husband, David, about the five days we spent in |
| 0:40.2 | Strasbourg in the Alsace region between Christmas and New Year 2022. |
| 0:45.8 | This is our very own trip report where we tell you all the things that we learned and why |
| 0:50.1 | they matter. |
| 0:51.1 | We had a great time and if you're considering spending time in |
| 0:54.0 | Alsas next December you really need to listen. For the magazine part of the |
| 0:58.9 | podcast after the interview we'll discuss the latest controversy about the Michelin Guide coming out in just a few days. |
| 1:06.5 | The Michelin Guide is ruffling feathers. |
| 1:08.8 | Why? |
| 1:10.6 | This podcast is supported by donors and listeners who by my tours and services, |
| 1:15.0 | including my itinerary consult service and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris on the Voicemap app, and you can browse all of that at my |
| 1:24.8 | boutique join us in France.com for slash boutique there is a newsletter to go along with |
| 1:30.6 | this podcast right now I only email very rarely, but the last few days I've had |
| 1:35.3 | a lot of good ideas for the newsletters, which is a good start. When I email, it's always something that |
| 1:40.5 | will help you next time you visit France. You can sign up for that |
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