Itinerary followed during this Interrail throughout Germany, Denmark and Switzerland

Cologne - Koblenz - Copenhagen - Helsingor - Hillerod - Roskilde - Berlin - Potsdam - Crucero Rin - Friburgo - Strasbourg - Selva Negra - Rhine waterfalls - Schaffhausen - Stein am Rhein - Constanza - Zurich - Basel - Interlaken - Luzern - Zermatt - Brig - Bern - Geneva - Heidelberg - Munich - Dachau - Fussen - Nuremberg - Rotemburgo (ODT) - Wurzburgo - Jungfrau and Lauterbrunnen - Brienz - Geneva

Little city placed close to the Black Forest. It is perfect to make excursions to many interesting places, as it is in the middle of the road crossing to France, Germany and Switzerland.

It keeps a lively old city, and especially the cathedral square, surrounded by nice streets that worth a walk. You perceive the tranquillity of its citizens.
We recommend a day to enjoy the city, but we slept for 4 days because we needed to stay for some days in the same place, due to the previously accumulated tiredness.
Walk through the charming and cheerful stone streets .

You will enjoy the cathedral and the square , as they are the centre of Freiburg life.
Works of the gothic cathedral were started in 1200 and continued for 3 centuries. Between the 13th and 14th centuries the slender tower of the facade was erected, and it is the symbol of the city. There are several medieval works of art inside the temple.
You will like the Merchants House , that shows a very powerful red colour, in gothic style, from 16 th century. There are many statues of emperors on the facade. You find many old buildings and terraces around the square.

Sit down in one of the terraces to take a cold beer, as the atmosphere encourages to do that. I make a parenthesis to tell you something evident: German beer is absolutely delicious, and imagine if the weather is hot, like in Freiburg. We checked here a curious German custom.

German people are thought to be cold tempered, but we found very often the opposite: kind, helpful and really polite. The terraces are an example. If a German enters a terrace and there are clients in a table, he would sit in the closest table because the contrary is bad mannered. And what's more, if all the tables are full he goes to any of them with a free seat and he asks the other sat people if they would mind him accompanying them. To be sincere we found it an admirable custom. If you come to the south of Europe you will check exactly the opposite. People in the south use to choose the most distant table.
It was an immense pleasure to sit, after coming tired from intense daily excursions, in the square terraces, to have a rest with a cold beer in this friendly atmosphere.