My driver today could not have been a nicer person if he tried, so happy and friendly AND a careful driver 🙂 so thank you whoever sent him my way. He was not great with directions, even though he was following Google maps, but each time he took a wrong turn he would turn to me and smile and say ‘oh no I have made a mistake but don’t worry I will turn around’, and it just made me smile. On the way from Strasbourg to Basel there are loads of small villages, wineries, Christmas markets and castles to see. I chose to stop at Chateau du Haut Koenigsbourg, which is a castle originally built in the 1200s, then destroyed, rebuilt in the 1400s, destroyed again, rebuilt in the 1700s, and then abandoned. A lot of restoration work has gone into making it a complete fortress again and it is cool. Full of medieval furniture, armour and weapons, and things salvaged from the site during the reconstruction. It was a super foggy morning so the castle was enveloped in cloud, which added to the mood. I paid for my driver to come and see it with me (only 9 euro) rather than have him wait in the car, and he was so happy that he took loads of photos of me to say thank you. There is a restaurant here which is open in the summer, but today the moody fog was perfect. Reminded me of the Scottish castles in Outlander which I’ve been watching on Netflix (wrong country I know, but if you’ve seen it you’ll know what I mean 🙂 )
That’s a heater on the right 
Huge key 
Love being in a cloud 
It’s a big fortress 
Clouds lifting 
He takes more photos than my mum 🙂 