Herdern

Our apartment is in a neighborhood called Herdern. Up the street is the St. Urban catholic church. Bells ring before every service. Sunday mornings are especially musical, with interesting little melodic patterns emerging as the higher bells are joined by the lower ones.

There's a small farmer's market in the church square twice a week, with fruits, vegetables, cheeses, eggs, meats, flowers, and more varieties of olives than I knew existed.

The roads and footpaths behind the church (the above photo was taken from one) lead up into the hills; many follow canals or natural creeks. If you stay out of the woods, you get some nice panoramic views of Freiburg over the occasional vineyard.

Elias and I took a walk this evening and found two musicians hanging out near the top of the hill. They had brought their acoustic guitars, a mike, and some lawn chairs, and were sitting in the middle of the sidewalk next to their parked car, singing and jamming away.