Recently (or not so recently in the first case) I had the pleasure of being visited by two of my best friends from Newcastle. The first was my farming friend Laura. The second will remain a mystery until I get round to that post, unless you know already.
One of the first things we did was a Tübingen must- Take a boat on the river!
The river Neckar flows up north and joins up with the Rhein at some point near Heidelberg or Mannheim I think. I'm not sure as we didn't go that far to check it out. We went around the long island in the river and had a picnic.For long stretches no one was at the wheel (we were busy eating messy olives etc,) which explains our occasional crashes.
At one point we ran into a family of ducks, almost literally. We were going along leisurely and the ducklings floated off round the side of our boat, round the back to where the propellers were. We had to stop pedalling immediately to prevent any duck soup incidents.
Afterwards, or certainly at some point we went for ice cream at one of my favourite ice cream-eating-spots- The wall. Known to those who love it as the Neckarmauer, it is on one side of the river, and is brilliant for eating ice cream whilst watching the boats go pass by. This was also when I first tried out lemon and basil ice cream- interesting and very nice.
At one point we ran into a family of ducks, almost literally. We were going along leisurely and the ducklings floated off round the side of our boat, round the back to where the propellers were. We had to stop pedalling immediately to prevent any duck soup incidents.
Afterwards, or certainly at some point we went for ice cream at one of my favourite ice cream-eating-spots- The wall. Known to those who love it as the Neckarmauer, it is on one side of the river, and is brilliant for eating ice cream whilst watching the boats go pass by. This was also when I first tried out lemon and basil ice cream- interesting and very nice.
We also decided to go to Lichtenstein. Not the country of course, that would be silly. It probably wouldn't be that far to go, but knowing Deutsche Bahn, it would cost loads and the train would be late. Contrary to popular UK belief, German trains are not that much better than our own apart from the ice train (Inter City Express. It's a kind of high-speedish train.) I'm digressing. No, we went to Schloss Lichtenstein- a castle built by a (mad) man who was obsessed by the Novel Lichtenstein. It isn't large, but its appearance is striking. For poor students who don't own a car it also means about an hour on foot up hill in the sweltering heat before you reach the top. I think it was worth it though.
As Laura has a nice DSLR camera we had a mini photoshoot.
And after all our hard work we needed a beer in the beergarden.
The next day we went to Bebenhausen, a monastry within walking distance of where I live.
An interesting door:
And the photoshoot continued.
And lots of silly behaviour.
It was really nice, because we hadn't seen each other for such a long time. I'm looking forward to more fun, although less in the sun as we will be in Newcastle, but it will be good all the same.
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