Freiburg

We left Munich on the overnight train on Sunday midnight to be picked up at Freiburg station (very) early on Monday morning by Till, an old friend of Vic's past moot teams, who was now coaching the Freiburg team. He took us to our billetts, Alex and Dagna, where we could get ready for the day's mooting.

For those unfamiliar with it, Freiburg is a beautiful city close to the border with France and Switzerland with beautiful cobbled streets. Although the whole town was probably woken up by our early morning trundling suitcases!

The Freiburg moot saw us argue against the hosts twice, as well as Basel and Heidelberg, making four arbitrations in one day. While most of the other teams have at least four people pleading, we are only two, and it was a bit of a challenge to keep up stamina over the course of the day. Nevertheless, we made it through, and back to our billetts for a well-deserved 11-hour sleep!

The feedback we got on our presentations was really valuable, and not always positive, which is important, as we know we still have much to improve.

David's own personal favourite moment on the Freiburg trip took place at lunch, as he stared at the menu in seeming incomprehension, searching for a vegetarian option. One of the Heidelburg team's mooters took pity on the monoglot, and offered to order for him when the waitress came around. And when she did indeed do so, said mooter turned to her, indicating David, and enunciated in flawless English "he will have the pesto spaghetti, please". Well, you can't fault his good intentions, anyway!