Explorations with Some Friendly Faces
Jared Pelletier
Jared and I have been exploring the beers, food and some nearby towns - in the good company of Jeannie, Steve and Willi. Holla!
We met up with these seasoned German travellers on Tuesday. Considering that Jared and I were slightly jet lagged, we had an easy night starting with a tour of our new place and then off for some Turkish food (it is everywhere in Mannheim). We topped the night off with a couple of beers. Jared and I then fell face first into our pillows and slept like new born babies on Gravol.
On Wednesday we walked to the Mannheim Univeristy Campus and bought tickets for tonight's festival "Schneckenhof." We met up with Jeannie, Steve and Willi in the afternoon and then headed to Heidelberg. We drove up to the historic castle at sunset and caught some breathtaking views of the town. We followed this with some amazing authentic german cuisine (brautwarst, stuffed dumplings, pork knucle, and spatzel). Then the evening was finished off with some more beers and a gentelman's game of Asshole.
Today we headed to Heilsbronn to see Harry, Ute and Erna. We had a huge lunch of schnitzel, potato salad and Paulaner Dunkel. Our trek back home was a grueling 3 hours (it should have been 1hr45m) due to some insane traffic on the autobahn.
Now we are getting set to head over to Schneckenhof.
Tschuss,
Amanda