Central Heidelberg

... not end up eating Chinese food that day. In fact, I don’t remember what we ate, until after our trip to a local museum.

The Nibelungenmuseum – what an experience. Though fairly large, this permanent exhibit is not much to speak of, except that it defied our expectations so greatly, that it has become a bit of a joke with Tracy and me. In fact, she now calls me her ‘little Nibelung’, or ‘little dwarf’ (rough translation ...

Well...this time honestly I didn´t have time to make travel list or structure my backpack. After finishing my PhD graduation there was time onyl to celebrations and party (since the last months I rarely had much time).
Heidelberg is ...

Without an official job offer, I took advantage of my free time and joined Jon at his conference in Heidelberg. As it turns out, the official job offer was coming, but that comes later . . . In the mean time, I got to explore while Jon had to sit and listen. Lucky me!

We've become big fans of the day passes for trains and busses. For one, you can travel around and cut out a bit of walking. But really, it's ...

Well we didn't really spend much time in Frankenthal. It was really just a stopover since we arrived a day early for my mum to arrive in Frankfurt.

We got to Frankfurt and found a call shop to help us find a hostel/hotel for a good price. Unfortunately there weren’t any in Frankfurt so we made our way to Frankenthal about 30 minutes outside of Frankfurt. One piece of advice…when parking in paid parking areas make sure you pay! Haha…we ...

... is Robb? I worked with him ages ago at Disneyland, but in the ensuing (eek!) 18 years, he's become one of the foremost world experts on...rollercoasters. (check out his site, http://www.ThemeParkReview.com). He had mentioned to me months ago that our travel itinerary goes right by one of Europe's largest theme parks- Holiday Park, I believe it is called. I initially ignored this tidbit, because hey, we're going ...

... there you go.

Tuesday morning we left the Romantic Road, and drove onto the Castle Road ("Burgenstrasse" in German). This road is fairly LITTERED with castles. There are SO MANY CASTLES during the course of a 75-mile drive that only 1 guidebook I could find even bothered to mention more than one, and that book was the only one that even mentioned the Burgenstrasse. It's such an embarrassment of riches out in rural Germany. We drove westbound from Rothenburg (Bavaria ...

... I recognized her and she recognized me! So we both had a coffee and talked a little, and then we decided to walk the Philosopher's Way. That was across the river, and up another steep, long climb. The view from up there was very nice, and we passed a couple of nice gardens. Soon we went walking into a forest of tall trees. It was really pretty, but we didn't know how long we would be in this forest before we came to something else, so we turned around and walked the other way. This ...

... day of rain as well. I am just hoping that it clears up pretty soon!! Not feeling as homesick anymore. I think I just needed to make it through week 2. We have our first exams on Monday so I am a little anxious to see how those go. They should be fine. The information has not been too bad. I am just glad that we do not have anymore required fieldtrips planned for tomorrow like we did today. Missing everyone from home and thinking of you all!

... there downtown area was levelled in the war and has been renovated by several new buildings. Shop until you drop I said to the Galina! We have our regular stores that we ...

... whose jaw-bone was discovered in 1907, died at nearby Mauer. Heidelberg's population includes about 135,000 people, 28,000 of which are students at the University of Heidelberg. Heidelberg is the scientific center of its region with 18% of the people working in Heidelberg employed by the University or a research establishment which is ...