Tomorrow we will pack up and aim for an early start on Wednesday morning for a fairly long drive North. Weather so far can at best be described as “unsettled”… We hope for some dryer days for the next half of this trip.

Today is Monday, the start of a new month (July) and we used our Black Forest Guest Cards to travel by train (and bus replacement) to Freiburg. The station in Schluchsee is just over a 20 minute walk from the campsite and the train / buses were clean, on-time but very busy and we arrived in Freiburg mid-morning.

The morning was fine and dry and we headed into the centre of the old town where we found the Freiburg Munster, or Cathedral. Construction started in 1200 in a romanesque style and continued in 1230 in a Gothic style. The cathedral is famous for its gothic spire.

A market was in full flow around the cathedral square with numerous stalls selling various Wurst sandwiches. And everyone (except Moe) was eating some kind of hotdog. I decided to go with the flow and enjoyed some kind of spicy sausage – a good, if perhaps fortunate choice.

We walked around the old town, through an area where brightly painted houses have been built next to the river, giving rise to the the area’s nickname of “Little Venice”.

We then stumbled across Freiburg’s only Brauhaus, where we spent a couple of hours, just before the heavens opened (yes, again!), after which we headed back to the station and home to Schluchsee. Moe’s new coat came in handy…

The Brauhaus is located right next to Martinstor. The Martinstor, a former town fortification on Kaiser-Joseph-Straße, is the older of the two gates of Freiburg that have been preserved since medieval times. Both gates, the Martinstor and the Schwabentor, are located in the city centre. The picture below is of the Martinstor gate.

Sunday visited the town of Titisee on Lake Titisee. Our two choices of where to stay where either Schluchsee or Titisee and I think we chose the best one. The town of Titisee is very touristy with the usual shops selling Chinese tat. We stayed long enough for a coffee and then headed home again, in rain, just in time to watch England vs Slovakia in the last 16 of the Euros 2024. Hmm. Enough said.