Our campsite in Strasbourg was cheap, and they also took bakery orders for fresh bread to be delivered in the morning. We got a baguette and a pain chocolate, keeping our order light so we didn't spoil ourselves for cafes in the city. Strasbourg is the seat of the EU parliament, but it is also a very medieval city with an old cathedral and lots of pointy roofs. I don't know why they had pointy roofs (some as many as four stories tall), but it seems to be a theme. The city is built around a network of rivers and bridges, all lined with old and ornate buildings. At the center of the city, on the grand isle, is a huge and airy cathedral that was constructed mostly in the 13th century. I'm impressed mostly by how much open space there was around all of the lacy frilly bits of stone , and how such slender structures stayed together. I couldn't really capture the open space in the walls in photos, but from some angles you could see all the way through the walls and spires to the other side, like it was a hollow shell.
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