Anyway, wsking up to the clear cool mountain air we head to some of the more industrialized areas of Germany.
After breakfast and loading we head north past Lucerne again, towards northern Switzerland and into the Schwartzwald, or Black Forest area of southwestern Germany. We stopped at a Roadside shop, hotel, and eating place. Of course many had to have the Schwartzwaldtorte, or Black Forest Cake.
Some pieces were small, some medium,
and like this one, rather large (check the full sized table knife beside it.) Regardless of size they all were excellent.
This building has a life-sized Cuckoo clock affixed. It hoots and plays a.music and dancing theme on the hours.
Back on the bus and more driving North. Tons of traffic heading south for another vacation? weekend (Pentecost Sunday). It was a good thing we were going North. Hours of southbound backups...
We finally got to Heidelberg to see the huge old schloss, or castle. It was left to rot over 350 years ago so it's not in the best of shape.
Heidelberg is also home to a world famous university, one of the earliest in Europe.
A little free time to buy Gummi candy and try the Flower Eis.
It's chocolate ice cream scooped like big petals, then vanilla eis petals, with a chocolate cookie on top... guess who ordered this? Why our resident chocoholic I believe....
Anyway, back on the bus to our hotel. Check in and head to dinner. Very nice dinner. For me, the best part was having real ice water!!! Was especially important because we discovered our hotel room air conditioners only blow hot Air! And it got to about 85 today... looking forward to a miserable night. Then the Nebraska group is at breakfast at 6.30, on the bus at 7.15, and heading to Frankfurt airport. We expect to be back on Omaha about 8.40 pm Saturday if all goes well.
See you soon!
