THREE DAYS IN GERMANY
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.
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| 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.
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| Church in Öhringen |
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| Castle in Öhringen |
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| 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.
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| Bookstore in Zurich |
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:
So last but not least, there is little Simona in front of a huge barrel. Can you see me?
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| Castle in Heidelberg |
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| Pharmacy Museum |
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| See these lovely books? :) - EN bookstore Zurich |
