On our way to Strasbourg, we drove through a town called Coole. Since we had been engaged in a small project to collect photos of amusing French road signs, our inner Beavis and Butthead was devastated that we had missed the sign announcing that we were leaving Coole. But on the way back home, thanks to a minor navigational miscalculation felt keenly by Dave, we ended up driving back through Coole and made sure to photograph the signs. What we really want are refrigerator-magnet replicas of these signs (who wouldn't?). Alas, the French seem to have a much smaller appetite for tacky souvenir t-shirt stores, so photos will have to suffice.
There isn't much about Strasbourg that fits in the "pas-Coole" category, but the photo to the right might qualify. The statue is none other than Johannes Gutenburg, the inventor of modern printing (definitely Coole) and one of Strasbourg's most famous residents, but his pedestal is holding an nasty old beer can and he is unceremoniously surrounded by cheesy carnival booths. Pas-Coole.
In the "Coole" category, there is our visit to
le Vaisseau, a "hands-on science and technology center". The photos below depict an exhibit in which multicolored computer-generated beads fall from the sky and may be "caught" by any shadows cast on the wall; a station in which Molly is experimenting with multiple siphons; and a giant construction zone for the under-6 set, complete with a giant crane, a crank-operated conveyor belt, large railroad cars, and hundreds of foam building blocks that can be carried, conveyed, lifted, lowered, or whatever.
There isn't much about Strasbourg that fits in the "pas-Coole" category, but the photo to the right might qualify. The statue is none other than Johannes Gutenburg, the inventor of modern printing (definitely Coole) and one of Strasbourg's most famous residents, but his pedestal is holding an nasty old beer can and he is unceremoniously surrounded by cheesy carnival booths. Pas-Coole.
In the "Coole" category, there is our visit to le Vaisseau, a "hands-on science and technology center". The photos below depict an exhibit in which multicolored computer-generated beads fall from the sky and may be "caught" by any shadows cast on the wall; a station in which Molly is experimenting with multiple siphons; and a giant construction zone for the under-6 set, complete with a giant crane, a crank-operated conveyor belt, large railroad cars, and hundreds of foam building blocks that can be carried, conveyed, lifted, lowered, or whatever.
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