Heidelberg

[Webster] Paige is here visiting! She arrived after a long bus ride from Paris on Thursday. I came home to her snuggled in our guest bed, and since then we've been catching up on life and exploring different things.

 

We spent Friday night in Karlsruhe at the "Parking Lot Festival" - a giant student-organized event which Annika helped put together this year. We got to see her for about 1/2 an hour before she had to scurry off and complete more official duties. Paige and I danced furiously to the live Ska music, drank wine spritzers with the boys, and at the end of the evening, watched the remaining festivities from the balcony atop one of the dorm buildings.

Then we biked back to our friend Felix's house to spend the night. The cops stopped us in their big van to see if we were driving drunk (in Germany you can have a vehicle driver's license taken away for driving a bicycle drunk). I spoke with them quite calmly and convinced them that Fabi was in full control of his bicycle, despite his crazy swerving, which he had been doing to make us laugh.

The next morning we got up and drove to Heidelberg:



(cue heavenly angel song)

It was rainy all morning, but we got lucky that the sun popped out around 3 p.m., just after we had finished eating Flammkuchen ("flame cake") and schnitzel at a medieval-themed restaurant in the city center.

 

These photos were taken at in the gardens around the famous Heidelberg castle, which is mostly ruins. But really LARGE ruins. You can walk all the way around it, and see the different centuries of architectural styles slapped together over the years.

 

 

 

Paige's friend Galyna - another au pair from this past year in Paris - lives close to Heidelberg and met us there. Above is a photo of our group all together.