Heidelberg Trip

 I fell in love with this town! My first adventure started on the train on the way to Heidelberg. I sat across from a lady, and she seemed to be a teacher because she was grading print essays. Halfway through the ride she looked at me and asked me in Spanish: “Are you from Colombia?” And I replied: “Yes, how did you know?” And she replied: “Because of your Totto brand suitcase, only Colombians have those suitcases!” From there we started a very interesting conversation. She told me that her husband is Colombian, and that they are planning to travel to Colombia for their next vacation. Talk to her about a little bit of everything but especially about her experience in Colombia. She loved living in Colombia, and if the situation in Russia Ukraine worsens, she and her husband plan to take refuge in Colombia. I loved listening to her speak in Spanish because she had a German-Colombian accent, the curious thing is that her husband still finds it very difficult to speak in German and she prefers to speak to him in Spanish. She was super fun and now we are planning to meet up in Bonn to eat Colombian food prepared by her and her husband.

When we arrived in Heidelberg, we left our bags in the attic we rented, and walked around the city, the riverside, and around the castle. When we were walking through the castle gardens, we wondered how people would have felt living in such a big place and with traditional dresses of the time referring our ideas to the Cinderella movie. Although the last few days were gray and rainy in Bonn, the weather this weekend was perfect sunny and cloudless! 

The next day we toured the castle inside and it turned out that it was a museum of the history of pharmacies in Germany. Throughout the tour we saw the different scenarios, instruments and species used by the first pharmacists in history. To be honest, we remembered Dr. Wasser throughout the tour because most of the information presented in the museum had not already been taught by him in our History of Medicine class. The view from the castle's balconies was beautiful and you could see the whole town from there. Afterwards we tried to visit some museums but we couldn't get in because we needed to have a reservation. So we decided to go explore some ruins on top of the mountain on the other side of the river. The ride was super tough because the trail was super steep but along the way the view was beautiful and we finally reached a natural theater made of rocks. Afterwards, we ate lunch in a restaurant near the theater watching the sunset from the top of the mountain. Going down the mountain was quite an adventure because the sun had already set and we were a bit far away, so we went down as fast as we could but unfortunately that hurt our feet because many times we couldn't see where we were stepping and we tripped over the rocks in the path. When we reached the edge of the river, we had the opportunity to see the illuminated castle and the reflection of the lights of the houses on the river at night. It was very romantic! Afterwards we went to rest and the next day we returned to Bonn.