Heidelberg, Germany Travel Blogs

Just let me sleep...
Jun 24, 2006 (20 photos)

... lovely gardens are a step back in time despite the overwhelming presence of stupid comments from those with american accents. Indeed, Heidelberg is an extremely picturesqe town with a lot to offer the prospective tourist. Me? Not up for it. My coffee ...

Heidelberg, Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas
Nov 24, 2003 (18 photos)

... fewer travelpod entries unless we're actually traveling somewhere or going someplace new. At the beginning of the month we drove to Heidelberg, Germany, and spent the weekend with Bruce's uncle and his family. (Bruce is Chris' friend, He worked in LA ...

Chapter 55: Stuttgart and Schwarzwald
Sep 26, 2004

... out the surrounding region - specifically the Schwarzwald, or Black Forest. My frist stop, however, was the famous university town of Heidelberg, which is an hour+ north of Stuttgart. I arrived on the train at 4pm, and it was grey and cold and drizzly ...

Into the South of Deutschland
Jun 14, 2008 (5 photos)

... to Germany than sausages and Lederhosen... Weinheim is a beautiful town with a typical old-town and the German Fachwerk-Houses, but Heidelberg tops it off...though being a little touristy it is truly the most romantic town in Germany and the view from ...

Chilling out before Round of 16
Jun 24, 2006 (22 photos)

... to get the job done... I hear the lads plotting against me - something about telling me we're in Hamburg rather than Heidelberg. I ponder for a moment and decide to go along with it, but also can't help wondering if it would even make a difference ...

Preface: here we are in prague and i must ...
Jul 30, 2000 (20 photos)

... 't planned on staying in Germany but Till made it worth our while. We were truly lucky to have such a gracious host. -- Day 1 - Heidelberg After a quick nap and some food, we were off to the Heidelberg ( See photos ). The only thing which kept us ...

Phone fiasco
Jun 25, 2006 (6 photos)

... train tickets. I saw it the first time when I went there to visit some people that my Stuttgart host knew from the internet. Heidelberg was a virtual unknown for me, but it turns out that it is huge on the American tourist's list of places to hit up in ...

Heidelberg, Germany
Mar 27, 2006 (7 photos)

We've spent our last day in Germany wandering through Heidelberg. Curtis enjoyed the castle ruins, but overall the town is very touristy. We dined on potato cakes and mulled wine with Nancy's family, who will head home tomorrow. So for a German wrap up, ...

Addition...
Jul 30, 2005 (1 photos)

Just thought I should add a photo of the family whom I mentioned in the previous message and to let you know that I know that I shouldn't have had an appostrophe in "friend's"... :-)

The 2nd riding day - Rothenburg to Heidelberg
Oct 4, 2007 (10 photos)

... " (blue tower) which gives you a great view of the valley.  We finally arrived at our destination, Heidelberg, which is one of the oldest settlements in Germany.  It is also the place where the Heidelberg Man was found in 1902 (a skeleton dating ...

Day 3
Mar 22, 2009 (11 photos)

... three elderly women that worked on the farms came in to say their prayers. After visiting the town of Otterstedt we headed back to Heidelberg. When we got back to Heidelberg we went to dinner on a 100 year old ship ( it was really cool). Then for ...

Le Heidelberger Schloss
Oct 11, 2007 (4 photos)

... . Je me suis levé un peu tard, faut croire que j'en avais besoin... Hélène et moi sommes allés luncher dans le vieux Heidelberg sur la Marktplatz. Un schnitzell et une bière pour moi. Ensuite je suis allé dépenser mon allocation dans une petite boutique juste à côté ...

Flashback 4--Heidelburg Castle
Mar 6, 2008 (10 photos)

About a week ago, I had a tour scheduled that involved driving 2,5 hours away, to visit a grouping of about 4 farms. This involved driving through heidelburg, and since I started super early to avoid any traffic jams (the autobahn kinda sucks between 7am ...

Heidelberg
Aug 5, 2007 (8 photos)

... ßen Terasse des Schloss Hischhorn und genossen den Ausblick auf den Neckar und die historische Altstadt. Videos: Das wunderschöne Heidelberg Die historische Bahn auf den Königsstuhl

The Return to Deutschland
Oct 11, 2007

... walked back to the restaurant area on the water and had a nice long meal that included steak. Our very last stop in Germany was Heidelberg. This place was AWESOME. The old town area is huge and has a large university population. Oh and a huge castle. We ...

Visiting in Heidelburg!
Oct 1, 2008 (11 photos)

We arrived in Heidelburg after a series of short train hops, including a quick stop in Frankfurt in the vain hunt for a BBQ chicken place which is presently shut down for remodeling. Frankfurt was windy, rainy, and cold, so we did not stay long before ...

Uni Town
May 4, 2006 (3 photos)

The old medival town of Heidelberg. Home to Germany's oldest university.. I had an instant affinty with this city. Also this is where I first witness the total and utter madness of the Germans and the World Cup...

We have arrived
Jul 23, 2005

... yesterday was an effort due to lack of sleep. Today, however, we are both feeling great. We spent the day in Mannheim and Heidelberg at various PXs, local grocery stores, and commisaries. Yesterday we did take time to get passes to be allowed "in", so we ...

rhine river cruise
Jul 2, 2007

... sides of the Rhine. After about 2 hours we reached our pickup point at St. Goarshausen. Again...back on the bus for a tour of Heidelberg. Most of us napped while Willy drove. This is an industrial area so there isn't much of interest to see on the way. ...

Why run away to sicily? particularly since ...
Jan 5, 2003 (5 photos)

... and Harumi arrived on a beautiful clear, cold day from dreary wet Prague. We warned that that this was not a typical day for Heidelberg. They were so delerious with seeing the sun that they refused to believe us. Too bad. It rained and rained and then ...

Heidelberg
Jul 25, 2006 (2 photos)

Back in Heildelberg!

Castles, fields, Rhine Valley and more castles!!!
Jul 16, 2005

After our "exciting" one night stay in Frankfurt we caught a bus to Koblenz then decided (well I did, Ken tagged along) to go on a river cruise from Koblenz to Mainz through the Rhine Valley ... there were loads of castles, fields, castles, fields ... oh ...

World Cup Fever and partying with Wild Bill
Jun 17, 2006 (5 photos)

Heidelberg, Germany, is a lot nicer than Heidelberg, Melbourne. No bogans, no deros, no neo-nazi gunslingers like the bloke that held up my mate Jim when he was doorknocking for charity one time. None of that jive. The German Heidelberg is a classy, classy ...

May not hear from me for a few days..
Aug 6, 2006

I am having problems with internet connections in the area that I am in. Also still pretty sick, will stay put until well. May have to skip Switzerland until after Paris. As soon as I am able to travel again I will get to Paris. Love Beverly

Auf Wiederschen
Aug 15, 2005 (3 photos)

Okay, one more time. I took some video and had to wait until my "donation" was received to upload; had exceeded my limit. I used my new camera for everything on this trip. Love that camera!

HEIDELBERG , GERMANY
Sep 30, 2009 (57 photos)

One of my cousin's best friends, Juliet, happens to live in Heidelberg  - our next destination. She invited us to stay as long as we wanted, she probably didn't think we'd stay for almost a week though.  We walked from the train station to her ...

Germany? America? Where am I?
Nov 4, 2005 (6 photos)

... pockets, like ravioli, only better because they were slightly fried with Speck (bacon) and Zwiebeln (onions)). Josh and I arrived in Heidelberg around noon on the All Saints holiday day (Nov. 1) and arrived in the Altstadt area by about quarter to one ...

Catching up on August 5th
Aug 9, 2006 (15 photos)

August 5th, 2006, Sat. Went out to vineyards today, took pictures of the villages to show you.We went over to Heike's grandparents home. She was baking plum cakes for Sunday dinner. We will return for coffee and cake on Sunday. Her whole family meets ...

Catching up August 6th
Aug 9, 2006

Sunday in Heidelberg, August 6th, 2006 As planned we went to Heike's grandparents home for cake and coffee. Then a tour around the city. Went high above the castle to take pictures of the river. It has been cool and only raining at night. In the ...

Heidelberg
Aug 4, 2006 (3 photos)

... 239 km/hr, someone do the math. Will have to change trains in Mannheim, Germany in a few hours and then to Heidelberg where Heike will pick me up. ______________________________________________________________________ There was only 6 minutes between my ...