June 3rd Heidelberg Germany

And here I am in Germany! We took about a six hour coach ride (in a Mercedes coach I might add!) to Heidelberg, a town about an hour away from Frankfurt. It is a beautiful town, located right on a river with the Heidelberg castle just overlooking the entire town. It was fun driving on the autobahn seeing so many Porsches, Audis, BMWs just zooming past us at 90 mph or more. We stopped in Cologne for a quick visit and lunch. For only 1 euro we climbed all 5oo some steps to the top of the tower of the cathedral there. It was 500 steps all in a tiny tower with a spiral staircase!

I had Greek food for lunch at a cheap little store right off of the square by the cathedral. We then hopped on the bus and took a long tour of Germany's countryside on our way to Heidelberg. We passed a good 3 or 4 castles on our way to Heidelberg, but none of them compare to the one here, especially at night when it is all lit up. We had dinner together as a group at a Cuban restaurant (go figure) then we had free time to explore the city. There is a nice walking street with shops that leads all the way up to the Castle. I cannot wait for a tour of the castle!