Heidelberg Stories


Fantastic Day

Got up early and had a shower then breakfast - lovely...meat, peppers, tomatoes, scrambled egg and fruit. Beautiful hot and cloudless day. Set off for Hockenheim at 10.20am and arrived in time for tour. the man at the desk told us the tour would be in English so we paid and waited but in typical Val and Steve tradition, it wasn't in English!! Much bro...


Finally Here!

Well, we are here!! Got to airport in plenty of time only to be told after queing for an hour that the plane was overbooked and we didn't have a seat!! Got put on next flight which was actually better as the original flight had plane problems and only arrived in Frankfurt 5 minutes before us!!! Picked up car and got upgraded so we have a Kia Vengo w...


Heidelberg Castle - FINALLY!

We woke up early this morning and set out to find Heidelberg Castle. Al told me that it was partially destroyed in the 30-year war, and I wasn't yet convinced that it had been rebuilt. Well, we got TWO different sets of directions and had THREE new maps, so we thought we could surely find this damn castle. WRONG. FYI - 22 combined years of college d...


Heidelberg Disaster

Heidelberg was a disaster. After sitting in TERRIZBLE traffic, we finally made it into the city (after Al pulled over to have me do the “city” driving). As I previously mentioned, we’d rented GPS for our car. However, the GPS lady could not find the castle. After traffic, we were going to have just over an hour to tour the castle. We’d already deci...