Evie was enjoying this (and some jet lag)
The "Heidelberger Schloss"
The "Hauptstrasse"
on the "Philosophers' Walk"
Evie joined in a walking tour of the old town Sunday evening and a dinner Monday night (the wives of the some the attorneys I work with were there as well – you’ll need to ask her about all this)
EVIE'S COMMENT: I need to point out that the pictures above of Heidelberg are not quite as I experienced it -- it was not warm and sunny. In fact the morning that I went up to the castle and walked around the Haupstrasse was decidedly cold and gray. After walking around the outside of the castle and listening to an audio tour, I was so cold, I headed down to the shops on the pedestrian-only street and bought a scarf and new hat! The next morning, when I walked across the bridge to the Philosophers' Walk on the other side of the River, it was cold, but there was finally some sunshine -- and it was beautiful, but definitely not summertime. At an overlook spot, I met and talked to an older woman from Heidelberg who spoke fairly good English. And that was a treat. It turned out that her family owned and ran a restuarant in the altstadt, and it was a restuarant we had visited on our walking tour two nights before!
. Fortunately, “English” is the “official” language for HeidelbergCement and all functions were conducted in English. Monday evening was a “mystery dinner” put on by an English acting group with a plot involving a celebration of the British Admiral Lord Nelson’s great victory over the French in the battle of Trafalgar. It was fun, reasonably good food and, frankly, a little surreal. Picture this, a group of largely German lawyers shouting out “victory” and singing on cue:
Here are a couple of pictures (we’re not in them). The company’s general counsel was recruited to play the role of an admiral and dressed accordingly.
EVIE'S COMMENT: I need to point out that the pictures above of Heidelberg are not quite as I experienced it -- it was not warm and sunny. In fact the morning that I went up to the castle and walked around the Haupstrasse was decidedly cold and gray. After walking around the outside of the castle and listening to an audio tour, I was so cold, I headed down to the shops on the pedestrian-only street and bought a scarf and new hat! The next morning, when I walked across the bridge to the Philosophers' Walk on the other side of the River, it was cold, but there was finally some sunshine -- and it was beautiful, but definitely not summertime. At an overlook spot, I met and talked to an older woman from Heidelberg who spoke fairly good English. And that was a treat. It turned out that her family owned and ran a restuarant in the altstadt, and it was a restuarant we had visited on our walking tour two nights before!
. Fortunately, “English” is the “official” language for HeidelbergCement and all functions were conducted in English. Monday evening was a “mystery dinner” put on by an English acting group with a plot involving a celebration of the British Admiral Lord Nelson’s great victory over the French in the battle of Trafalgar. It was fun, reasonably good food and, frankly, a little surreal. Picture this, a group of largely German lawyers shouting out “victory” and singing on cue:
"Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves
Britons never never shall be slaves"
Here are a couple of pictures (we’re not in them). The company’s general counsel was recruited to play the role of an admiral and dressed accordingly.
