Frieburg/Bern/Paris

Because Karen was competing in the 2006 German Cup in Frieburg, I went down to southern Germany for a few days last week. Left London wednesday arvo and got to the hotel at around 1am...a little later than I had planned, but anyway. Frieburg is a lovely little town. We stayed at Hotel Stadt (http://www.hotel-stadt-freiburg.de/fla_version/index.html).

And then at the rink:

The three aussie girls waiting for their turn.

Karen during training for loops

Karen during competition warm up, ended up coming 10th in her event.

On Saturday, I went Bern in Switzerland for a few hours during the day. I went there a few years ago with Lisa, it is a very pretty town. Albert Einstien once lived there and there is a bear pit where you can go and watch the bears for free.

While I was there I bought some awesome Baileys handmade chocolates and some extra creamy lindt chocolate....all of which was very nice. On the Sunday, even though there was poor weather we headed up to Titisie (pics below) which is a "resort" town not too far from Frieburg.

Then on Sunday night, Karen and I headed to Paris by sleeper train and arrived about 7am on the Monday morning. We were lucky enough to be able to check into the hotel early, so we dropped our bags off then started to go sight seeing. We went to the Eiffel Tower which was only a couple blocks from our hotel, then we went walked the ave des Champs Elysees up to the Arc de Triomphe.

On the monday night, we decided to go out for dinner at an italian resteraunt. Even though we were not that hungary....1st thing we were told we could not share a pizza, so we ordered two...2nd thing, i asked for a vodka and coke (which I received 1 shot glass of vodka and 1 bottle of coke, which was more expensive than my whole pizza) which would have been alright, except my pizza was one without cheese...not a good night! Except I managed to get some awesome photos.

Then on the tuesday, we decided to goto the louve. We got there early to beat the crowds and it looked like it had worked...only to find out that the Louve is closed on Tuesdays...bloody French.

We did some shopping at a massive shopping centre "Galeries Lafayette" (http://www.galerieslafayette.com/index.do ) where I bought some new clothes and we had lunch. Then we headed to the airport to go home to London.