28 March - Heidelberg

Today was a quiet day.  We wandered around the town with the throngs of other tourists, this time with a guide map from the local tourist office in hand and a little more purpose.  The views from a walk high up on the valley on the opposite side of the river give a great sense of this town.  It's a route that apparently the academics from the town's university used to take in order to clear their heads and come up with great thoughts.

Heidleberg Main Square

I had concerns for the evening's entertainment when Lorraine suggested - or so it sounded to me - that we go to a 'fest lickers organ concert' and I wondered whether I had somehow unknowingly ended up in Hamburg and not Heidelberg but it turned out to be a concert of Bach music in the beautifully bright and airy 16th century church in the main square of the old town.  That, a light dinner and then cocktails brought the day to an end. We awake tomorrow and the first thing to do is to decide where the next leg of our journey will take us.....