I spent the week in Germany in build up to the Football World Cup. We stayed in Heidelberg but unfortunately never got much time to see a lot of it as we were working in Walldorf and seemed to have fairly long hours sitting in SAP's offices. Heidelberg was a very pretty little town with a river winding through and fairy tale inspired buildings dotted around, all overlooked by an old castle on the hill. Two of us managed to go for an early morning run along the river bank on the first day there so at least we saw a little of the town in sunlight and traversed a street and park with Islamic sounding names so I can only imagine an intriguing history of slaves and spices and marauding tribes passing through, no time to do some homework around this though!. We managed to eat and drink in some quaint spaces and if there were places in town that never served asparagus on the menu, we never saw them.
I left Frankfurt on the Friday to meet up with the rest of the crew at Karen's 40th at the Manoir. The airport was pretty hectic and the excitement of the pending opening game of Germany vs Costa Rica added to the heat of a European summer's day. It took me about 9 hours to get to the Manoir but I still got there before Graham who had travelled with Cobus and Wendy, they took longer than me to get from England to the Manoir due to road closures on the M25! Nightmare journey!!
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