Go to the Volerie Des Aigles for an amazing experience with demonstrations of different birds of prey. Eagles, buzzards, owls, you name it, they've got it.

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As well as seeing the usual sights, you must visit the Orangerie, a park or more accurately, pleasure garden just north east of the city centre.

There are beautiful gardens, stately buildings,a small zoo, an aviary,a boating lake, an unusual outdoor planetarium and a stylish cafe and restaurant.

A lovely place to spend an afternoon away from the busy city centre.

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Strasbourg is set among waterways. Arrive on a canal boat.

Hire from just up the canal (Saverne or Lutzelbourg) and stay moored free just before the Rhine lock gates.

Five minutes from the centre by bike (hired with the boat) and you get to see the Alsatian countryside.

Try a night moored at Saverne, looking up at the Bishop's Palace where Cagliostro studied and Cardinal Rohan welcomed Marie Antoinette as she arrived to make a doomed marriage. Beats a static hotel room any day.

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The city is designed for public transport and biking. To get around you can rent them at Velocation. It is bike rental service managed by the community. Get a bike and get local.

www.velocation.net/

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When staying in Strasbourg over a weekend or public holiday, a great way to explore the region by train is by purchasing a "Pass Evasion" rover ticket at the railway station.

This allows unlimited travel throughout Alsace as well as Basle in Switzerland and parts of Lorraine.

It is available at the bargain price of 13.50 Euros per day and for parties of 2-5 travelling together it is exceptional value at 26.60 Euros for the whole group.

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Built during the period when Strasbourg was German, the Bains Romains/Bains Municipaux are a splendid example of a 19th century bathhouse.

You can pop from sauna to plunge pool to hot pool, surrounded by sea nymphs, statues of Neptune and fine art nouveau design. The perfect way to relax and warm up on a bitter Strasbourg winter day!

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Strasbourg is lovely toured by bike. The city has a number of bike rental shops and provide bikes with big baskets and locks, which allow yo to get on and off and carry all your shopping as you go.

www.velocation.net/en/index.php

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Strasbourg is small enough to enjoy its varied attractions in a day. Join guided tours round the European Parliament and the Council for Europe; visit the wonderful cathedral and see the fascinating astrological clock.

Stroll round the Petite France area with its timbered buildings and shops, and have lunch at the mediaeval Maisons de Tanneurs.

Afterwards, take a leisurely boat trip on the canal which circumnavigates the city. Should you have the stamina, pay a visit to one or more of the many museums and art galleries, the planetarium, the botanical garden or the zoological museum.

All this only three and a half hours from London by Eurostar.

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Take a local train to Wissenbourg a experience a little bit of Germany in France - German place names and shuttered doors on wooden buildings that wouldn't look out of place in the Baverian Alps.

Set against the backdrop of the Vosges, this is a place where national boundries blur. Half a day is plenty of time to travel there to enjoy a walk about and sink a cool beer and return to the city.

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