After a few hours of train rides including one delay, we arrived in our first
German city! On one of those trains, a guy we met told us about a restaurant
called Bier Brezel and told us we should eat there.
poker on the train |
More on that later, we
didn’t get into the town until it was already dusk and so we walked around and mum did some tourist
shopping down the main street and as we hadn’t had the time in all our train
rushing to eat lunch, we were all quite hungry. My papa had his TripAdvisor app
open searching for this restaurant that ended up being literally right under
our noses! Right smack dab in the middle of the shops was the acclaimed
restaurant. Prices were quite good even for the area, so we decided to eat here. I got spaetzel
(type of eggy pasta) with mixed veg and everyone else ordered a different flammacuchen
(similar to a flat pizza). The
atmosphere was warm, welcoming and very authentic and the food was incredible. No
crumbs were left by the time my brothers were finished!
One neat thing about these Christmas markets and the others around Germany
is that each stand selling hot wine serves it in a different ceramic mug saying
the name of the city you are in
and coming in different shapes and colors. Jesse began collecting them in different cities.
We
wandered towards the bridge, home of an infamous statue my mum told us about.
It’s a monkey. And apparently touching different pieces of him will bring
different things like wealth, a return trip to Heidelberg, or if you touch the
little mice on the side (which my little sister accidentally did) you will be
blessed or cursed with many children.
Whether
that will happen or not I don’t know, but I would be happy with the return trip
to Heidelberg as it was an enjoyable little town.
Sounds like so much fun! I would enjoy collecting the different mugs from all the cities. Those would make great suvineres!
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