15 degrees and sunny!

If I told you it's 15 degrees in Freiburg you might think it's not any warmer than it is at home in Massachusetts. But remember in Germany they use Celsius. That means that it's around 60 degrees Fahrenheit here! Apparently while the United States was being hit hard and heavy with snow and cold winds this winter, most of Europe didn't even get any snow. An exchange student from Cambridge was telling me how it rained nearly every day this winter in England. And the Germans and Swiss were amazed at how little snow they had this year. Nonetheless there was still some snow to be found up in the mountainous regions of the Schwarzwald.

Im Schwarzwald

Our very first Saturday was spent in the quaint and quiet black forest. With our Regiokarte we were able to travel for free around the area surrounding Freiburg. So we decided to check out St. Peter, a small village centered around a gorgeous medieval church and a library (which was unfortunately closed); Titisee, which lies on a lake hidden in the middle of a mountainous forest; and Neustadt, a small town that has the feel of a city, what the Germans call a Flecken.