Freiburg calls itself an ecostadt and you can see here plenty of solar panels, people use bikes and the town has good tram connections.
We live in a small and friendly Gasthaus Waldheim near the Forest. A few kilometers of the gasthaus is a seilbahn up to the mountains. This morning we decided to use half a day at the mountains to get some exercise after sitting in the train.
Freiburg is old town like Leipzig and it has also an old university. However to me it feels more touristic than Leipzig. The centrum is a limited area and because of that you get the feeling that there are plenty of people around all the time in down town area. An interesting sight seeing was the big cathedral. Its building had lasted 300 years, so hope they sometimes will finish also that Cathedral in Barcelona.
Our next target is Avignon at the French side. Again it was really difficult to get the obligatory seat tickets to TGV although I tried to make the reservations right when we arrived here. All the decent times were full and finally we have a very complicated plan with several changes, first train leaving at 07.04 . Hope the morning trams are in schedule, so we can catch the train. But that is interrailing. Many people in Germany are saying bad things of Deutsche Bahn, but you can always jump in to the train, even if you do not have a seat reservation. So for an interrailer it is a heaven. In France seat tickets are obligatory in many routes, and they even have a reduced quota reserved for interrailers.
