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Rob’s been taking Fridays and Mondays off from work so he can take me around to see some of the sights. We’ve been spending quite a bit of time in Heidelberg which I’ve decided I really love. I’ve been there four or five times now so far. Here are a few of my favorite shots so far…

A church:

I fell in love with this darling little villa:

An example of some of the common building architecture:

Across the Neccar River:

The Alte Bruecke (the Ol Bridge) over the Neccar River:

These towers are a world-famous attraction called the Bruecken Tor (Bridge Gate) which guard the entrance of the bridge over the Neccar:

Flood marks on a nearby building along the Neccar:

This is the Stadthalle (City Hall) building:

City streets:

During our last excursion there together, we happened upon this delightful used and rare book store. Rob wasn’t able to get an old, old German historical set out of his head so we decided we’d go up on Friday to spend the day in Heidelberg again with the intention of doing a little wheeling and dealing with the bookseller and then visiting the majestic Heidelberger Schloss (schloss = castle/palace).

First stop of the day was back to our favorite restaurant, Binsebub’s:

There’s a little story behind the name and if you can read German, this is it, LOL:

A photo on the wall of the owner’s cute little dog (who is now deceased, God rest his cute lil soul), “having a drink” at the bar :

The food at Binsebub’s is so deliciously authentic and off the beaten path, which is exactly why we love it so much (we don’t like the tourist spots; getting the real flavor of the country and culture is the only way to travel). The proprietor is this sturdy, efficient German woman who comes off a bit gruff at first, but then will bestow upon you her big, warm smile and you see she has a heart of gold. Like last time, we had the pork roast with a delectible gravy and home fries (sliced potatoes) and this time had red cabbage as our vege. Of course, we also had to have a couple of the finest Pils bier (bier = beer) to go with!

BEFORE:

 

AFTER

(Let me tell ya, if we hadn’t been in public, we would have licked our plates clean.)

We also decided to eat a little dessert and settled on some apple pie. They put slivered almonds over the top and serve it with real whip cream and vanilla ice cream. By the way, they do ice cream over here like Italy. If you’ve ever had gelato, you will never look at ice cream in the States ever again.

Okay, enough about food. Afterward, we spent a couple hours in the bookstore. Rob got a good deal on the historical set. We walked around the Christmas market and did some window shopping. Here are some pix of the main shopping district street which leads up to the Christmas market and then up to Heidleberger Schloss:

It was getting to be eveningtime so we decided we’d better get to the castle if we were going to get any good photos. First, since our pix don’t do it justice, here are a couple photos of the castle, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Here are some of our pix that came out the best: