Heidelberg

On Monday we decided to take a train to visit Heidelberg, where Eny's sister Ina and her boyfriend Chris live. Heidelberg is a city in south west Germany, but a few hours north of Lörrach. The city is a very old city, like most cities in Europe. It has a very large castle ruins up on a hill, which is quite a nice view to behold. Unfortunately, we did not have the time to check out the castle up close. Today, Heidelberg is known as a college town because of a large university there.

Ina and Chris were kind enough to let us stay with them for the night that we were there. They even showed us around the town and had dinner with us in the evening.

Ina and Chris are on the left, walking next to Rebecca.

One of a few large churches.

A really old building.

The castle.

The castle.

Us, with the castle in the background.

This church has little shops at the bottom of it.

A cool gate for a bridge that crosses the river.

On Tuesday we started off with a delicious all you can eat German brunch. Ilya may have gained several pounds in this meal because of how much he ate.

Rebecca at the restaurant

Part of our buffet

Ilya at the buffet

Two of those were Ilya's first two plates

Someone had a dog in the restaurant, which apparently you can do so long as the restaurant is okay with it, and your dog isn't disruptive or noisy.

After eating we did our own little walking tour of the city. We saw many nice buildings, some good views of the castle from across the river, and more.

Us in front of a church

A random, but cool door for some kind of building

Us in front of a nice house.

Rebecca in front of either a house or hotel.

An old arch/gateway that likely lead into the city.

Nice, and probably expensive houses across the river.

One of the nice houses across the river.

A view of the city from across the river.

Panoramic view from across the river.

A view of the old bridge and gateway, the church, and the castle

Part of the town and the castle

Us on the bridge in front of the old gate.

After walking around we stopped for a drink (we were still full from our brunch) and to allow Rebecca to relax for a bit. We stopped at a cool looking German restaurant.

Ilya sitting at a table at the restaurant

Ilya's beer, and Rebecca's orange soda.

On the way back there was a cool looking fruit stand. Ilya wanted to buy a few cherries to snack on, but at first the guy said it was seven Euros for a small bag, when we said no, he told us his other cherries were less expensive, so we got those.

Ilya at the fruit stand

We took the city train back to Chris and Ina's, then went with them to the train station, were we headed back to Lörrach. Once back in Lörrach, we found Sven making a delicious German noodle dish called Spätzle which we enjoyed before heading to bed.