It has taken 7 days to get over my jet lag, which is longer than it has ever taken before; this likely does not bode well for the trip back. Getting up at 6AM every day and in bed by 10PM really has turned the world upside down. Even my parents aren’t up at that time. As such I ran out of steam when shopping, and dragged myself homeward on the tram.
Today was the beginning of Easter, and Good Friday is usually a dead quiet day, but the incredibly good weather we have had in the past 5 days (20 C or more every day and sunny) brought a few more people out. As the only part of France which has an almost equal balance of Protestants (and a history of religious freedom that has even changed the French used¹), I wonder if they don’t take it a little more seriously still than the rest of France. Laïcité² is not exactly the law in Alsace as it is in the rest of France.
We had dinner at a nice little Lebanese place in Strasbourg after a fruitless search for an open restaurant earlier in the day on the Wine Route, which ended in a desperate late lunch at McDo.
I’ve not made up my mind what do to with Saturday night, but I do recall a somewhat enjoyable evening at a bar and a generous ride home.
¹In “correct” French (I use quotes because I do not consider it a matter of correctness but rather of Parisian/seat of power snobbery and prejudice) churches of non-Catholics are not referred to as eglise but rather temple. In Alsace signs and people refer to them as the same: eglise.
²The 1801 Concordat is still in effect, and public funds still go to the four recognized religions at the time of the law: Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism and Judaism.
