October Trip Part 2: Karlsruhe
As stated in the previous post, I met Katja on Friday and we carpooled down to Karlsruhe to stay with Annika for the weekend. In Germany they have a carpooling website where you can search for or offer carpooling opportunities to most major and medium-sized cities, for a fraction of the cost of a train ticket. Our passage to Karlsruhe was only 10 Euro per person.
Annika welcomed us with dinner at the Thai restaurant and then we went back to her dorm to drink new wine and talk about life. We sat on the outdoor patio at the very top of the building, watched the stars, and laughed about German grammar and funny translation mistakes.
The entire next day (after brunch on the town) was spent on a bike! We rode about 7km outside the city and then rode a cog lift up the side of the only hill in Karlsruhe. On top there was a lookout tower - the ruins of a castle built in the 1100s. It was very windy, but beautiful. We could see the first changing leaves of fall in the forest behind us, and the whole city before us. Then we biked back to town and, typical of any good girls' weekend, we went shoe shopping! Each of us came home with two new pair. (Can you tell which ones are mine?) Back at the dorm, we cooked a meal of cheese spaetzle with salad in the community kitchen and played games until bedtime.
On Sunday we woke up slowly, ate breakfast, and then sat in the kitchen for about 3 hours after breakfast was done, chatting about life and culture. It was a really neat conversation. Then, without leaving the table once, we decided to continue the fun by making waffles. We didn't leave the kitchen until it was time to take Katja back to the train station. Luckily I got to stay another night before leaving for Paris, and Annika and I had the opportunity to visit the ZKM museum - the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. There was a massive internactive exhibit about Sound as an art medium- simply fascinating! A giant statue made of hundreds of amps and speakers greeted us at the entrance, and the artist statement inckuded a number you could call, to speak through the sculpture in real time.
Early Monday morning Annika started her 2nd week at her new internship, and I mosied my way back to the train station to hop on the TGV to Paris...
Annika welcomed us with dinner at the Thai restaurant and then we went back to her dorm to drink new wine and talk about life. We sat on the outdoor patio at the very top of the building, watched the stars, and laughed about German grammar and funny translation mistakes. The entire next day (after brunch on the town) was spent on a bike! We rode about 7km outside the city and then rode a cog lift up the side of the only hill in Karlsruhe. On top there was a lookout tower - the ruins of a castle built in the 1100s. It was very windy, but beautiful. We could see the first changing leaves of fall in the forest behind us, and the whole city before us. Then we biked back to town and, typical of any good girls' weekend, we went shoe shopping! Each of us came home with two new pair. (Can you tell which ones are mine?) Back at the dorm, we cooked a meal of cheese spaetzle with salad in the community kitchen and played games until bedtime.
On Sunday we woke up slowly, ate breakfast, and then sat in the kitchen for about 3 hours after breakfast was done, chatting about life and culture. It was a really neat conversation. Then, without leaving the table once, we decided to continue the fun by making waffles. We didn't leave the kitchen until it was time to take Katja back to the train station. Luckily I got to stay another night before leaving for Paris, and Annika and I had the opportunity to visit the ZKM museum - the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. There was a massive internactive exhibit about Sound as an art medium- simply fascinating! A giant statue made of hundreds of amps and speakers greeted us at the entrance, and the artist statement inckuded a number you could call, to speak through the sculpture in real time.Early Monday morning Annika started her 2nd week at her new internship, and I mosied my way back to the train station to hop on the TGV to Paris...
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