What Wikipedia has to say about Heidelberg.
(You can almost see Nee’s house in this shot!)
I still have a headache :S It’s cool though coz I can just flake out at Nee’s when I feel crook.
She left this morning for Italy – it’s Loris’s birthday. Happy birthday dude!
This means she will miss the big fireworks display which I lucked into. Three times a year they light up the castle and the Alte Brucke (old bridge) and it’s happening tomorrow night!
It’s called Schlossbeleuchtung (castle lighting):
“The show starts with the Heidelberg castle being lit up as though it is on fire. This is to remember the times in 1689, 1693 and 1764, when the castle went up in flames! After a few minutes of the castle ‘burning’, the fireworks begin. The fireworks are launched from the old bridge (which is obviously closed at this time) and last for about 15 minutes. The fireworks exploding over the old bridge with the castle looming in the background is really something to see.“
I did the walking tour of Heidelberg this morning. I take back what I said about walking sucking. I do like it. I just don’t like walking to the shops or something when I can ride, but walking to explore new places is cool. I get angry when I touch the bike now. I took the bike to a shop to try and get the back wheel fixed. The two guys don’t speak english so they basically ignored me. I left. Fsck them.
So now I’m searching the ‘net trying to find a bike shop. Enough of that. Bikes suck. My right knee is still stuffed. I gotta mess with the cleats or something. I noticed the saddle is bent to one side (I think from the SS Worlds in 03!) so this could be lowering my right-hand-side and causing the knee issues only on that side? That’s a vague guess. Could also be a twisted cleat position, but I haven’t adjusted these cleats for 5 years and they’ve never given me trouble before!? Stupid fscking bikes! I like watching other people ride bikes, especially all the Heidelberg hotties, but they are giving me the sh1ts!
Back to walking.. the tour this morning was pretty cool, not as good as the Berlin one but still had some interesting stuff pointed out to me that I’d walked past about 20 times!
Yesterday afternoon I walked up a hill, a BIG hill! The first part of the walk was pretty steep, up to Philosophenweg and I kept going to the top where I found an ampitheatre (built by the Nazis in 1935 using forced labor) and a monastery which was abandoned in 1500! There is a tombstone there with “1070” written on it! Apparently there is an annual “peace” party up here. Significant ground methinks, given the multitude of religions represented up here and the presence of the Nazi’s building..
Yeah, so that was 4hrs of hilly walking that my legs really thanked me for. I will go back up there tomorrow night in the hope of getting a good view of the castle lighting. Then all I have to do is make it back down in the dark without breaking my neck! That’s hard enough when I’m sober and in daylight! 😉
Vetter Brauhaus received my custom last night for dinner. Yes, after one day I have broken my beer ban.. well they do make the Strongest Beer in the World! “Vetter 33“:
“The Brauhaus Vetter brewpub in Heidelberg produces Vetter 33 (it’s original gravity is 33 Plato), a cloudy amber beer with a concentrated malt nose, huge and very rich clean malt flavor, high alcohol (11 percent by volume) and a very long sweet malt aftertaste. It is available on at the brewpub.“
from: www.allaboutbeer.com