Tuesday, October 21, 2014
We left Switzerland and headed in the direction of Liechtenstein. We were barreling along the freeway when our trusty Garmin decided we should take an exit and cross into Austria. We didn’t intend to go to Austria, but hey, why not. We crossed the border with ease, only to find we didn’t have a special sticker to drive on the Austrian Freeways. So we weaved our way through the baby streets until we entered Germany and could get back onto the faster roads. The rest of the drive to Heidelberg was uneventful. Our arrival in Heidelberg was accompanied with terrible rain. The good weather of the last week had definitively switched to winter weather.
After settling into our boardinghouse we let our friend Marianne know we’d arrived. A little later the three of us were enjoying champagne at her (temporary) place. Later we went out to dinner and were joined by Andrea, Marianne’s friend. We had a lovely evening chatting and catching up.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
For breakfast the 3 of us went to ‘Schwarzer Walfisch’, a lovely cafe just around the corner. After a look-see at Marianne’s Heidelberg home, under heavy restoration at the moment, we went for a forest walk along Philosophenweg (Philosophers’ Way). Later that afternoon we visited Schloss Heidelberg (Heidelberg Castle). The bad weather stayed away for most of the day which was very considerate. The evening was dinner in a nice, casual Italian restaurant with Marianne. We said our goodbyes with Caroline hoping to see Marianne again in South Africa!
Thursday, October 23, 2014
To be written.
