Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Heidelberg

Two weeks ago, Sean and I went to Heidelberg. While I spent days in session at a conference, Sean wandered around the city and took lots of good pictures for me to blog with.

Heidelberg is a cute little city on the Neckar River, a 2 and 1/2 hour train ride south from Bonn. It's also one of the biggest tourist attractions in Germany. On the right side of the pedestrian bridge, there's a the Philosophenweg, a narrow path that winds it way up the hill: very cute.


On the left side of the bridge, the old city is full shops, restaurants, and beer. The main street, Hauptgasse, is a pedestrian walkway. A block from our hotel (loud at night with people on the street and cars roaring up the narrow street, but quiet during the day), we went to a place that brewed their own beer (one was 33% alcohol) and I had a weissbierbowle (beer, champagne, and strawberries); I don't care what people said, it was quite yummy.

Above the city is Heidelberg castle.


It was pretty cool, a mix of different periods and all rather ruin-y.


You could go down and walk through the moat, which was pretty cool.


And one of the towers was split in two with half sunk on it's side.


2 comments:

Eugene said...

The castle perched on the side of the hill is pretty impressive! The ruins must be a lot of fun to explore.

/wishes he is a kid a again.

Jackie said...

There were a bunch of places in the castle that I could see (and wish I could explore) that were off-limits to visitors. By the way, Sean's blog has a better description of Heidelberg (and different pictures).