My trip to Germany

THREE DAYS IN GERMANY

After my 5 weeks internship, it was finally time to go to Germany to meet the lovely Isabell from http://dreamingwithopeneyesreviews.blogspot.de

We've been planning it for a while and I was so excited to finally meet her.

Firstly, to clear that up: We didn't know each other in person before, we meet on the fan site The Toonies and started writing messages.

I left early on Saturday morning by train. I took the train to Zurich, from there I went to Stuttgart and then Heilbronn, where she picked me up. I used the train ride to read some book of course: I finished Midsummer Sweetheart by Katy Regnery and then started The Dead Wife’s Handbook by Hannah Beckerman.

Pasta time in Vapiano

We agreed to talk German, since it's our first language, but on the way I was still writing messages in English. In Heilbronn we went to eat something first in a restaurant called Vapiano. It was delicious, I had pasta with a mushroom sauce. Well, my brother told me about this restaurant and we even have two of them in Zurich, but we don't really know it in Switzerland.

After that we walk through the city and went into some of the shops, also a books store of course ;) Unfortunately they didn't have a big collection of English books. I banned myself from banning books anyway, knowing that on my way home I'm going to the English book store in Zurich.

After that we took the train to her house, where I settled in and we exchanged some things, of course we already got talking about our blogs and books in general. 

The same evening we went to the cinema to see Vaterfreuden, a German movie, it was hilarious, trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0oQDPFgnWM (It's in German though, sorry)

Then we have Sunday, Isa and her mum took me to a lovely and local cafe for breakfast, we had Prosecco, omelettes, bread, cheese (I don't like it, but they had some), fruit, coffee etc. It was fabulous, just too much for me, since I'm not a big breakfast eater.

Our next stop was Öhringen city, the town they live in. It has a beautiful castle and park, the weather wasn't too nice though. The rest of the day we spent with watching the Olympics, movies, bloggin... Just chilling and relaxing, which was great as well. In the evening there was a German Cecelia Ahern movie on tv, it was romantic and cute.

Church in Öhringen

Castle in Öhringen

Heidelberg

On Monday we went to Heidelberg, it took us about 2 hours to get there by train and then we went to see the castle first, it's beautiful and you also have a breath-taking view on the city. We couldn't enjoy it that much, because it was so freaking cold with a nasty wind. Back down in the city we went to eat something first and then it was time for shopping. For me the shopping in Germany is great, because it's much cheaper and there were sales everywhere. I bought some lovely presents, a handbag, nail polish and cosmetics.

Of course we also went to the bookstores in Heidelberg and surprise surprise: We didn’t buy any books.

For the evening we met up with one of Isa's friends to go see a concert. Her friend is also studying to be a teacher, so it was interesting to compare and exchange thoughts about the educational systems in both countries.

The concert was great, especially the piano part.

On the way home we were really exhausted, but we had a great time.

Bookstore in Zurich

After breakfast on Tuesday it was time to say goodbye. On the way home I read again and I was able to finish Hannah Beckerman’s brilliant book and I wrote the review right in the train as well. In Zurich I made a little stop to go the the only English book store I know and bought some beauties with my gift card.

I had such a lovely time and it was great to get to know Isabell better and meet her in person. I wish our big blogger family could do that once as well. Well, I'll let you all know for sure when I'm coming to the UK next time.

Hope you all liked this little trip report. Here are some more photos to enjoy for you:

Castle in Heidelberg

Pharmacy Museum

See these lovely books? :) - EN bookstore Zurich

So last but not least, there is little Simona in front of a huge barrel. Can you see me?