Saturday, July 26: Luxembourg to Germany to Alsace-Lorraine

Jack's online banking problems are back, so he is one unhappy camper (pun intended). We left the campground in Luxembourg close to noon and traveled southeast into Germany through Saarbrucken and along the Saar River. This is an old industrial city and one of the old abandoned steel mills was at least one mile long as we drove and drove the adjacent road and this building never seemed to end! According to the guidebook, it is even lit at night, like a tourist attraction...

We stopped to do a little grocery shopping since stores will be closed tomorrow, had lunch and took a nap. We continued south, back into France's Alsace-Lorraine region. 

We spent the night in the small city of Saverne, slightly northwest of Strasbourg. The place names here are mostly German, but the language in French. The region has switched hands between the two countries over many centuries and now it is a great mixture of the two – they love their wines and their sauerkraut!

From our parking lot campground, we could walk into the city with the hopes of finding a nice restaurant. We did see quite a few, but we were not really hungry yet and the shops in the cobble stoned pedestrian area were all closing up.  Jack wasn't feeling well, so we returned to the RV, made a nice dinner and early to bed.


So, I spent my birthday in three different countries...Luxembourg, Germany and France!

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