Freiburg; Monday, 29 August, 2016

Breakfast completed and my bags packed I checked out of the hotel and went for a wander around town.

I started by heading over the road to the neighbouring Stadtpark and from there picking up the funicular train up the Schloßberg hill that overlooks the city centre.

At the top I had a long walk around taking in the views of the city and the vineyards growing on the side of the hill before catching the funicular back down into town and heading over to the Münster.

The Münster is the dominant building on the city skyline with its spire dominating most views of the city. Inside it’s quite a dark church and was very busy with tourists.

Back out of the Münster I headed over to the two remaining gates of the city – now highly decorated and acting as other key points on the city skyline.

I headed back in the direction of the hotel and stopped off at a very nice tapas bar for a late lunch before wandering back over to the hotel, collecting my bags and heading over to the station to pick up the bus back to the airport over the German/French border in Mulhouse.

I arrived on the French side of the airport only to find that my flight was checking in on the Swiss side so I had to walk through an (unstaffed) customs post and cross yet another international border just to checkin.

Bags dropped I headed up through security and back through the same international border into the French half of the airport to wait for my flight back to the UK.