The Ladies Tour the Town

We spent the rest of the afternoon touring Strasbourg. We did part on foot, and then we took the boat tour that circles the island via the river. Following are a few pictures of from the day.
As a side note: on Sunday evening, on the return from Luzerne, we stopped off in Colmar for an evening meal. The city center of Colmar contains block after block of the old half-timbered houses that one associates with Alsace. The preservation there is almost perfect, in large part because Colmar escaped the destruction that Strasbourg experienced - first due to shelling in the Franco-Prussian war and then due to allied bombing during WWII. Though some of the tourist books rate Colmar as more picturesque, I still prefer Strasbourg because of the variety of architecture that has resulted from the rebuilding.

The most modern can be found in the facilities of the European Union, which is headquartered in Strasbourg. The photo below is of the European Parliament taken from the river boat.