The day we drove from Olivet to Strasbourg, the sun was shining and the weather was chilly but quite nice for February. Then we got to Strasbourg after sunset and did not see the sun again until an hour after leaving town two days later. It was therefore a great time to be inside, like in one of the tour boats shown here. (For some photos of Strasbourg in better weather, click
here or, for a labeled slideshow,
here.)
Seconds after getting on the boat, the girls had shed their coats and were trying on the guided-tour headphones. At several times, Cricket and Dave had to avoid making eye contact with each other in order not to laugh, as the narrator regaled us with not-necessarily-child-oriented tales from Strasbourg's past.
Like the time that the town executioner was condemned for blasphemy and his successor, in deference to his predecessor's long service to the community, opted to simply behead him instead of first cutting out his tongue as the sentence had prescribed. Or the time that... well, you get the idea.
Probably the best part of the boat ride for the girls was the ride itself, since we had to pass through two locks and past one swiveling bridge, so we got a great close-up view of the way these things work. Since the four of us accounted for roughly half of the group on this particular tour (on a boat that could easily accommodate over a hundred), the pilot had no problem having the girls right up front during our passages through the locks.
It's hard to photograph anything from the inside of a plexiglass bubble because of the reflections, particularly on a gray day, so we didn't try too hard to get the locks' raising and lowering of the boat, nor the bridge. But here are a few attempts. In each of the two lock pictures (identifiable because the children are in them), we're about to leave the lock. We'll leave it to you to figure out which one raised us and which lowered us.
The day we drove from Olivet to Strasbourg, the sun was shining and the weather was chilly but quite nice for February. Then we got to Strasbourg after sunset and did not see the sun again until an hour after leaving town two days later. It was therefore a great time to be inside, like in one of the tour boats shown here. (For some photos of Strasbourg in better weather, click here or, for a labeled slideshow, here.)
Seconds after getting on the boat, the girls had shed their coats and were trying on the guided-tour headphones. At several times, Cricket and Dave had to avoid making eye contact with each other in order not to laugh, as the narrator regaled us with not-necessarily-child-oriented tales from Strasbourg's past. 
Like the time that the town executioner was condemned for blasphemy and his successor, in deference to his predecessor's long service to the community, opted to simply behead him instead of first cutting out his tongue as the sentence had prescribed. Or the time that... well, you get the idea.
Probably the best part of the boat ride for the girls was the ride itself, since we had to pass through two locks and past one swiveling bridge, so we got a great close-up view of the way these things work. Since the four of us accounted for roughly half of the group on this particular tour (on a boat that could easily accommodate over a hundred), the pilot had no problem having the girls right up front during our passages through the locks.
It's hard to photograph anything from the inside of a plexiglass bubble because of the reflections, particularly on a gray day, so we didn't try too hard to get the locks' raising and lowering of the boat, nor the bridge. But here are a few attempts. In each of the two lock pictures (identifiable because the children are in them), we're about to leave the lock. We'll leave it to you to figure out which one raised us and which lowered us.
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