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Schloss Heidelberg is a nice old ruin of a castle, but as with so many places that we\u2019ve been to this year, a lot of it was wrapped in plastic and scaffolding.\u00a0 Still we had a good roam around and had our morning refreshments, plus pretzels, down in the vaults, next to the most enormous wine barrel, the Grosses Fass.\u00a0 It was made in the 18th<\/sup> C and holds 221,726 litres of wine; that would be handy at some parties, although I think the sign said it is currently empty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was also an Apothecary Museum in one of the buildings which had a fantastic collection of old equipment and was really quite interesting.\u00a0 We finally boarded the funicular back down to the city and wandered along the main thoroughfare, the Hauptstrasse, deciding to have lunch inside a restaurant as it was such a hot day.\u00a0 Then suitably fuelled up, we continued walking along to Bismarckplatz and onto the Theodor Heuss Bridge to cross to the north side of the Neckar River.\u00a0 Lots of students were spread across the grassy riverbanks, reading, sunbathing and sitting on their boyfriends; ah to be young again\u2026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We wandered along the riverside to the Karl Theodor Bridge, the Old Bridge, and crossed back over the river in to the Old Town again.\u00a0 The gelato shop beckoned, and we succumbed; I tried an interesting combination of one scoop of pink grapefruit with one scoop of chocolate and it did work, I really liked it.\u00a0 Rodney played it safe with vanilla and strawberry.\u00a0 We sat in the shade on the steps of the Heiliggeistekirche to eat them and then we stepped across to a caf\u00e9 for \u2018cold beer time\u2019.<\/p>\n Although it was still hot and we were getting a bit weary, we decided to meander around a few more streets before walking out of the old town to the correct train station.\u00a0 And we sat on the platform for twenty minutes, all the time dreaming about a nice cool shower back at the campsite.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At Eberbach we wandered through the old part of town and over the bridge to Eileen and it really didn\u2019t take us long to grab our towels and get in the shower before bedtime.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we boarded the 9:29am train at Eberbach, it was full, with students sprawled all over the seats and the floor, but amongst the chaos we managed to find two spare seats.\u00a0 At the next stop some people got on with bicycles and a group of students who were playing an amusingly intensive game of 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