Day 3 - Freiburg Tour

Today was very busy!  We met our tour guide Steffan early near the university.  First we went through some of the old town and learned about the history.  We toured the church a bit, construction started on it around 1200.  Amazingly, the church was not destroyed in WWII but the rest of Freiburg was.  They were able to rebuild most of Freiburg in a traditional way.

Later we went  to a solar tech school and saw a presentation with information about developments in Freiburg. Steffan led us over past our hotel and we all rented bikes for the afternoon.  Everyone did very well on the bikes and we all seemed to have a good time biking across the German countryside.

After lunch at a nice Indian place, we toured a planned high-density community.  From there, we headed out through a forest to our next location.  The new location was a more-established community.  Steffan described a variety of methods for designing and creating the environmentally conscious living  environment, from grocery location to window blinds to community involvement.  Later we walked up to the Heliotrope, a rotating house that generates electricity.  On our way back we had to travel down a busy road and we had a few issues, but no wrecks.  Later that night we went our separate ways for dinner.  Andi and I ended up alone at Martins Brewery, the oldest Brewery in Freiburg.  We had a great dinner, along with a terrific wheat beer and a good dark beer.  The wheat was almost as good as my favorite, Konig Ludwig.

Photos - Day 3