Monday May 9th

Today we visited the city of Heidelberg. What a beautiful old city! There is a Castle there that today is in ruins from a war with the french.Heidelberg has one of the oldeset universities in Germany. We rode  a cable car up the hill to the castle, toured the castle, and then had a traditional german lunch in one of the older
student pubs called Spengel's Zum Roten Ochsen , or Red Ox Inn. For lunchwe had Ragout of deer with mushrooms,cranberries,red cabbage,buttered spatzle, and croquettes.
 After luch we had some time to shop and then had a journey by boat up the Neckar river. We could just sit back relax enjoy the ride and view and treat ourselves to german beer,wine, coke, or water. we stopped half way to let dinner be brought on board. For dinner we had another German meal which was schnitzel.