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Thursday, August 23 dawned bright and sunny and would stay that way all day, with temperatures rising into the 90s. It had been warm on the previous day, but not particularly uncomfortable. After breakfast we rolled our bags over to the Bahnhof and waved goodbye to the trams of Strasbourg. We reached the platform in time for the 8:04, which was a French SNCF TER dMU. It deposited us in Offenburg at 8:22, where we waited 15 minutes for a connecting train, which turned out to be a push-pull local that got us to Freiburg on time at 9:25. We could have taken an ICE from Offenburg, which would have saved us 26 minutes, but that would have cost big bucks. We easily found lockers to stash or luggage and made our way to the Hauptbahnhof’s tram station, on a road bridge that spans the railroad tracks. We were able to pick up maps and bought day tickets as well, the cost of our entertainment coming to 6.40 euros.
Freiburg, actually Freiburg im Breisgau (not to be confused with Fribourg in Switzerland*), is a compact city of about 220,000 residents containing a network of 5 meter-gauge tram lines that radiate outward to put most of its populace within a short walk of a tram stop. Like most tramways in Germany (the opposite of France)