Day 3 - Freiburg City Tour

Today was another solid day in Freiburg.  We met our guide Steffan at 9:00 AM for a quick lecture on some of the history of Freiburg, considering the significant investment in energy efficiency and sustainability.  After the lecture, we took a walking tour of Freiburg and went inside the church in the central part of town.  After the walking tour, we went back to the train station where we were able to rent bikes.  We rode off to see two different environmental communities, Riesenfeld and Verbaun.  Freiburg has great infrastructure for bike travel, so on the way out we had very little traffic to deal with.  We stopped for lunch in a nice little Indian restaurant 

The bike tour went through some nice parks near downtown.  It also went through some beautiful woods.  The total distance for today was 25 km biking, about 15 miles.  The last part of the ride was in bike lanes next to a busy road, but everyone  made it just fine.

Tonight Andi and I went to the Red Bear for dinner.  This is a Freiburg restaurant that has been continuously operated in the same location since 1120, almost 900 years!  Dinner was outstanding.  We were going to meet up with the students after, but apparently they claim to be tired and heading in early.

Andi's pedometer says today was equivalent to 29 flights of stairs, 11.1 miles, 24,951 steps.

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