May. 14th, 2023 04:08 pm
Germany, Wednesday
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lisa_goldsteinDoug and J. post a picture of them eating doner kebab to the Discord group, and they are immediately dubbed the Doner Twins.
The next day we wander around Heidelberg, which is charming, bordering on quaint, nearly tipping over into twee. A lot of houses are half timbered, with gables and black-tiled roofs and spires, and ruins are standing around all over the place, ancient walls and arches and towers. Rick Steves avoids it completely in his guidebook, which I think is a mistake.
I’d mentioned I wanted to see castles, so in the afternoon J. takes us to the funicular that goes up to the one in Heidelberg. One thing I’d learned visiting castles in Eastern Europe and reading about them in preparation for this trip is that very few of them are still intact. Most have been overrun and destroyed or just left to decay, and this one is no different. A few walls are still standing, and there is a basement with what is billed as the biggest beer barrel in Europe, a claim that is almost certainly true.
Doug says that so far he likes German food, and I point out that he hasn’t had any yet, that it’s all been Turkish. So we go out for Italian food after the castle.
The next day we wander around Heidelberg, which is charming, bordering on quaint, nearly tipping over into twee. A lot of houses are half timbered, with gables and black-tiled roofs and spires, and ruins are standing around all over the place, ancient walls and arches and towers. Rick Steves avoids it completely in his guidebook, which I think is a mistake.
I’d mentioned I wanted to see castles, so in the afternoon J. takes us to the funicular that goes up to the one in Heidelberg. One thing I’d learned visiting castles in Eastern Europe and reading about them in preparation for this trip is that very few of them are still intact. Most have been overrun and destroyed or just left to decay, and this one is no different. A few walls are still standing, and there is a basement with what is billed as the biggest beer barrel in Europe, a claim that is almost certainly true.
Doug says that so far he likes German food, and I point out that he hasn’t had any yet, that it’s all been Turkish. So we go out for Italian food after the castle.
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