Heidelberg - a nice, leafy university city with a seemingly disproportionate number of tourists relative to its attributes. Still a good couple of days.
After arriving in Heidelberg we went for a brief walk through the old town, tourist central, and thought we may escape of few of them by climbing the hill up to the Schloss, we were wrong. It was still quite chilled out at the top if you could switch off from them for a minute.
The next morning we got up nice and early (10am) and headed off to the top of Heiligenberg, along Philosophenweg, where minds much more brilliant than ours have sought inspiration. It was actually a fairly good workout and a few kilometres later and at 440 metres above sea level (which doesn't really sound like that much) we reached the top.
We didn't see too much of note along the way (apart from a massive red squirrel with an acorn), nor were we provided with much inspiration but it was a very scenic, very rewarding climb.
And as should be the reward of anything remotely strenuous, it was beer time (our first in almost a week!). We headed to Vettel first up for fried potatos with bloodwurst and liverwurst with a couple of house brewed dunkels (which were quite bitter, lacked much of a malty backbone or any yeasty banana notes) and then headed to Scheffel's for their seasonal offering - but after being treated like second class citizens when we were ready for another, we got our of there.
We finished up with a few at a smoke filled uni bar with a pretty random clientele before inhaling two kebaps (each!) at Yufka's. No photos here - the kebaps seemed to disappear between the counter and the table. We woke up feeling as though we'd done a dirty thing after knocking off two each.
Pug Sightings - 9 - we're back!
The Beers
Vetter Dunkel
Scheffel's Bier der Jahreszeit
Unidentified Schwarzbier
