Home / Trips / 2001 / Germany, June 2001 / 06/15/2001 44
No description This morning we got up around 9am and drove down to Karlshrue to
see where we used to live (18 years ago). It was another beautiful
sunny day. The ride from Heidelberg to Karlshrue is a little over
a half hour. When we got there we drove around looking for our
old apartment building. We found it, though Dad says they've changed
it quite a bit. They were also tearing down the old Officer's
Club which was just around the corner from the old apartment.
The buildings all now belong to Germany and they've renovated them.
I even found the only thing that I remember of Germany. The old
orange tube with holes in it and a slide at the top. When
I first saw it, it looked really small, but then I realized that
I was younger than 3 when I was probably playing in it.
Once we were done looking at the old apartment, we went to find
some parking near the Karlshrue Palace and find something to eat.
We ate lunch at a nice little pub which had great Jagerschnitzel
which is fried pork with a mushroom sauce. After lunch we walked
around the palace and took pictures. It was really gorgeous.
There was some sort of festival going on this weekend that everyone
was setting up for. There looked like there was going to be a
concert that weekend. After wandering around for a few hours we
went back to the car and drove back to Heidelberg to find some
dinner. On the way back we decided to take a detour through
France so we went south for a little ways from Karlshrue and
then went east across the Rheine River to France. Once over the
Rheine we tried to go north but couldn't quite figure it out.
We went through one round-a-bout three times, the last time taking
us the right direction :-) It also started drizzling a little bit.
Once we got back to Heidelberg and found parking in Heidelberg
we walked around looking into shop windows when it started raining
a little bit more. So we found dinner. I was stuffed from
lunch that day so I just had a salad that was very good. After
dinner we went back