24 JUN - Heidelberg (Day 17)
Well, I told you early in the blog that I wouldn't have a lot of landscape pictures if I wasn't in them. I'm going to break that rule today. Heidelberg is such a beautiful city and we had such beautiful weather; I wanted to share part of what we saw with you.
We stayed in a VERY nice hotel last night, The Hotel Ritter St. George. It took us a little while to determine that we could not drive right up to the hotel last night. We parked in the garage and made our way to the hotel. We knew it was the one we were looking for because it had a nice brass sign of St. George. You know the one that fought dragons? Our hotel is right across from the big church downtown.
Looking out of my window, it was apparent that I was in the old part of the city. The streets are so willy-nilly. I couldn't tell which bits were gardens behind peoples houses and which parts were streets.
John and Rocco and I met at breakfast. Rocco really had to do laundry so John walked up to the castle and I sat in the hotel restaurant and updated the blog. I was about 5 days behind.
We saw these guys walking down the street. I didn't know there were a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany but we found some. Of course, we figured these characters had to walk the baby before they could go knocking on doors. The German Witnesses must not have to wear black ties. Looks like they can wear a little more daring ties.
Once we met-up again, we decided to drive up to the castle. It turns out that you can't drive up to the castle on the weekends. It makes sense. This city is a HUGE tourist attraction.
The old city of Heidelberg sits on the Rhine and is overlooked by this really cool old castle. Here are a couple pictures of the castle overlooking downtown.
We decided just to drive around the old city and then along the Rhine. Here is a picture of a typicaly street in the old city that is leading down to the river.
There is a very cool looking bridge crossing from Heidelberg near the old town.
We had a very nice drive down the Rhine. The sun was shining, the trees are green and the setting was wonderful. Here is a picture of the houses across the river from the oldtown.
Here is a very nice picture of the river as we crossed to the other side.
It was pretty cool looking at the old town from the other side of the river. I assumed that there would be a road running along the river but there really wasn't. We drove through this kind of "private" area. The main road through went UP the hill and then DOWN the hill and I mean DOWN the hill. It was kind of scary coming back down.
John has an early flight tomorrow, 07:30 to Spain, so we drove back to Frankfurt after touring Heidelberg. We checked into our hotel near the airport and then went downtown to watch the Germany v Sweden match. We ended up at this little corner bar watching the game with about 40 other people. They can really cram them in when they want to do so. We watched the second match, Argentino v Mexico, at the hotel bar.
The hotel where we are staying seems to be more like a stop-over for business travellers. From 04:30 - 23:00, there are buses to the airport every half hour. There always seems to be a line at reception, Japanese, American, other, whatever. It turns out that the hotel is right next to the entrance to the American base too.
Rocco might have a lead on some Brazil v Ghana tickets so we might be staying in the area. Keep your fingers crossed!
Starting to drag,
Knuckles
We stayed in a VERY nice hotel last night, The Hotel Ritter St. George. It took us a little while to determine that we could not drive right up to the hotel last night. We parked in the garage and made our way to the hotel. We knew it was the one we were looking for because it had a nice brass sign of St. George. You know the one that fought dragons? Our hotel is right across from the big church downtown.
Looking out of my window, it was apparent that I was in the old part of the city. The streets are so willy-nilly. I couldn't tell which bits were gardens behind peoples houses and which parts were streets.
John and Rocco and I met at breakfast. Rocco really had to do laundry so John walked up to the castle and I sat in the hotel restaurant and updated the blog. I was about 5 days behind.
We saw these guys walking down the street. I didn't know there were a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany but we found some. Of course, we figured these characters had to walk the baby before they could go knocking on doors. The German Witnesses must not have to wear black ties. Looks like they can wear a little more daring ties.
Once we met-up again, we decided to drive up to the castle. It turns out that you can't drive up to the castle on the weekends. It makes sense. This city is a HUGE tourist attraction.
The old city of Heidelberg sits on the Rhine and is overlooked by this really cool old castle. Here are a couple pictures of the castle overlooking downtown.
We decided just to drive around the old city and then along the Rhine. Here is a picture of a typicaly street in the old city that is leading down to the river.
There is a very cool looking bridge crossing from Heidelberg near the old town.
We had a very nice drive down the Rhine. The sun was shining, the trees are green and the setting was wonderful. Here is a picture of the houses across the river from the oldtown.
Here is a very nice picture of the river as we crossed to the other side.
It was pretty cool looking at the old town from the other side of the river. I assumed that there would be a road running along the river but there really wasn't. We drove through this kind of "private" area. The main road through went UP the hill and then DOWN the hill and I mean DOWN the hill. It was kind of scary coming back down.
John has an early flight tomorrow, 07:30 to Spain, so we drove back to Frankfurt after touring Heidelberg. We checked into our hotel near the airport and then went downtown to watch the Germany v Sweden match. We ended up at this little corner bar watching the game with about 40 other people. They can really cram them in when they want to do so. We watched the second match, Argentino v Mexico, at the hotel bar.
The hotel where we are staying seems to be more like a stop-over for business travellers. From 04:30 - 23:00, there are buses to the airport every half hour. There always seems to be a line at reception, Japanese, American, other, whatever. It turns out that the hotel is right next to the entrance to the American base too.
Rocco might have a lead on some Brazil v Ghana tickets so we might be staying in the area. Keep your fingers crossed!
Starting to drag,
Knuckles
posted by jprg4evr at 1:07 PM
1 Comments:
I love the pictures. Wow, I never really thought I would care to travel overseas, now I am reconsidering that thought. Beautiful pics. Thanks!
Cathy
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