Sorry everyone that i haven't really posted in a while but the past few days have been a little uneventful. Yesterday we spent seven hours on the bus from Prague to Heidelberg and tomorrow we spend seven hours (with no traffic) from Heidelberg to Amsterdam. I suppose i could write about how crazy the bus makes me or how I feel like I am at a summer camp now with all the drama between couples and hookups with these people. BUT I will save all that for later.
This morning we woke up early, and we had real beds this time in our hotel! We got lucky and got assigned just two to a room and we had a queen sized bed to share with our own down comforters and fluffy pillows! Danielle and I literally sat in bed for four hours watching some bootleg MTV channel, it was the only channel in english, and gave our bodies a rest.
We took a scary scary bus ride, at one point I swear it was going to roll down the side of a hill, up to the Heidelberg castle which is about three thousand years old. Unfortunately only three parts were open to the public. One of these parts was their old pharmacy, one of the oldest built pharmacies as well as their wine cellar. See picture above for the worlds biggest wine barrel! It holds 228,000 liters of wine! I climbed all the way up and stood on top of it!
Heidelberg is also the city where they built the first bicycle, pretty sweet as well as the hometown for the first University ever built in Europe. The only time the university was shut down was during 1933-1945 WWII because of Nazis taking over the city. Thousands of the cities citizens were captured and sent to Dachau concentration camp :(
Now we are back on the bus heading to the main square for some lunch and shopping. We are going to drop by Heidelberg University however we are not allowed to stop by and check it out because its still active and we cant bother the students. Also there are several rivers here, all coming from the alps with some really cool brick arch bridges.
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