Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

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Trip to Heidelberg (September 2004)

When we went to my sister's wedding in Germany, we had a single day where there were no family functions to be attended. I used that day to show Jill around the city where I had lived for more than 6 years, from September 1995 to March 2002. We had only a few short hours, just enough to walk up the pedestrian zone once, climb first the church tower then the castle, and then head back.

These first pictures are looking down the pedestrian zone (allegedly the longest, largest or widest one in Europe, by different accounts), then inside the big church that you can see at the end of the road in the first picture:

We then climbed the tower to look down on the city. Embarrassingly, I had never done that before, although I had lived in that city for so long. Sometimes, it apparently takes taking a friend to such a place. That I had never done so is actually quite a pity, since one has a really nice view of the castle, the city, and Jill:

The last of above's pictures is actually from within the castle, showing the remaining ruins that have made this city so renowned.

On the way back to the US, three days later, we had the pleasure to fly in such a way that we first had a pretty nice view of a typical Suabian landscape with lots of small villages, and finally over Heidelberg, with the castle on the right shore of the river as it flows out of the mountains, and the Schwetzingen castle at the bottom left. All the four places where I have lived over the years are pretty well visible for those who know their way around the city: