Today, we visited Heidelberg. The cutest town so far. But everywhere in town, you could catch a glimpse of the spooky ruins of a castle above the town. I imagine it is gorgeous in the summertime, but the mist gave it an extra mysterious feel that I am happy we were able to experience. Mo said he is certain their are thousands of ghosts in there.
This is a column at the castle ruins that was bombed and they left the broken piece laying next to it.
The view from the ruins
They love it when I make them pose for pictures.
There is a foot print permanently marked below the room of one of the princess’ rooms at the castle. There are many folk stories of where the foot print came from. The one our tour guide told was that the princess had a suitor in her room and when the guards came to get him, he jumped out of the window to escape leaving only a foot print of proof he was there. If your foot fits in the footprint, it’s meant to bring you good luck. It fit my foot...
After the tour, we settled into a cute little Brauhaus (brewery). It was cozy and warm. We all enjoyed a flight of beer and some delicious German food. We had schnitzel, brats, currywurst, pretzel, goulash, potatoes, oh my.
After filling up with beer and food, we went out to adventure Heidelsberg a little more. All bundled up like Ralphie from the Christmas story.
Another standard castle selfie of course...
And finally enjoyed what we thought was streussel and something we didn’t know when we ordered was fruit cake. Didn’t really matter what they were, they were surprisingly delicious.
We got back on the boat just in time for our daily nap. This is the life...
Tomorrow, Strasbourg and Alastian wine tasting. Can’t wait.
Beautiful little town, I could live there.
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