Continuing with my look back through the archives, on February 5th 2008 I was in the French City of Strasbourg…
Strasbourg is the seventh largest city in France and is regarded as the cultural cross roads between Germanic and Latin culture. I
n the recent past Strasbourg has been passed between Germany and France like an unwilling baton in a relay race. Before the French Revolution it was a free city but the fanatical Jacobins seized it for the Republic. In 1870 after the Franco-Prussian war culminated in the creation of modern Germany it was ceded to Berlin but after the First-World-War in 1918 it returned to France. In 1940 the Nazis seized the city and it was liberated again in 1944 and has remained French thereafter
Have Bag, Will Travel 