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Heidelberg Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Heidelberg, Germany
Just let me sleep...
This is a top pick! ... and the 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 ...
Heidelberg, Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Into the South of Deutschland
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Chilling out before Round of 16
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Preface: here we are in prague and i must ...
This is a top pick! ... '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
This is a top pick! ... on 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 ...
Heidelberg, Germany
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Addition...
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
... " (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
... 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
Jeudi 11 octobre 2007 J'ai bien dormi cette nuit. Hélène était au rendez-vous à la gare de Heidelberg hier soir, comme promis. Finalement leur appartement c'est vraiment bien. Ils sont près de tout, dans une petite vallée, et on a une belle vue ...
Flashback 4--Heidelburg Castle
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
... meal i had an apple wine spritzer, I didn't care much for it but it was interesting to try! After lunch we roamed around Heidelberg, hit up the H&M where you can always find great deals (5 euro for a shirt, 5 for a skirt!) and then proceeded to ...
Heidelberg
... des neuen Tages war auch toll. Wir frühstückten auf der großen Terasse des Schloss Hischhorn und genossen den Ausblick auf den Neckar und die historische Altstadt. Videos: Das wunderschöne Heidelberg Die historische Bahn auf den ...
The Return to Deutschland
... 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. ...
Uni Town
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 ...
We have arrived
... 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 ...
Cute little city
... apprehensive because I had not driven in a while and it is a new country but the GPS did its job :) I drove to a city called Heidelberg that is on a river. There is a castle in the mountains and shops all around. It was so great to walk around. I ...
rhine river cruise
... 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. ...
Visiting Scott's family in Heidelberg
Got a taste of home while visiting Scott's family in Heidelberg :) Overall a gorgeous small city with a really cool castle that we went up to explore. Thanks to some of Scott's friends we got to experience the German night life as well there! ...
Castles, fields, Rhine Valley and more castles!!!
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 ...
Get your chores done
... got our train tickets sorted, we booked our accommodation for Salzburg and powered all this in only a few hours. Lunch followed in Heidelberg before and then we checked out the student prison. It was sort of like a jail for the students hundreds of years ...
World Cup Fever and partying with Wild Bill
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, ...
Day 6 & 7 Proud of myself
... me driving here I think it is. the streets are teeny-- no exaggeration here. today Day 7: walked on the main street in Heidelberg in and around the univeristy and the Castle of course. We had the best tour guide ever! Helmut T. Kathe ...
Duelling in the rain
... (castle) on top of the hill overlooking town. Next we wandered around the university which is the oldest in the whole of Germany,it has a few strange customs. For example there is a student prison in town where you could go if you committed a crime ...
May not hear from me for a few days..
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 ...
Auf Wiederschen
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 ...
Hello from Heidelberg!
... nice double-decker bus, we arrived in Nuremburg, Germany. There we rented a Volkswagen Golf station wagon and drove two hours to Heidelberg. The hostel we are staying at was once a brewery and the lobby is now a really cool bar/restaurant. Over the ...