On Wednesday July 15, I took the day off work and Taber and I went south to Karlsruhe. It was 2 or 3 hours on train. It was a cool city. Very bike friendly and lots of green spaces. And most of the interesting sites to see are in kind of a column running from the train station to the palace. Right after the train station is a large park with a zoo in it, but we did that on our way back to the train station so I will get to it later.
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| Vieordtbad baths |
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| Convention Center |
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| St. Stephan's Church |
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| Museum of Natural History |
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| Karlsruhe Palace |
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| streetcar |
Then we had lunch at a restaurant in the Rathaus that had "craft beers" from somewhere in Bavaria. Pretty good, though nothing compared to Michigan craft beers.
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| City Church, designed after the Pantheon in Rome, but with a belltower. |
Unfortunately there was a lot of construction going on while we were there. It reminded me of Michigan.
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| Park behind the Palace |
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| Concert Hall |
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| The big City Garden I mentioned before |
Then we stopped in Heidelberg on our way back. It was cool. Of course we saw Heidelberg Castle. It was pretty cool. Here is the view from the city.
We also went up the hill and went inside the castle. Not quite what I was expecting, but still pretty cool.
There was a pharmacy museum in the castle.
There were also giant wine kegs.
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| The people are there for size comparison |
Then of course there was a great view of the city below.
The Altstadt (old city) was also really nice.
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| Palais Graimberg |
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| Heiliggeistkirche (Church of the Holy Spirit) |
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| Old University |
Then we went to see the Alte Brucke, the old bridge.
Don't ask me why there are statues of mice and a baboon o the bridge, there just are.
A fun-filled Wednesday.
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