[July, 2011] From Heidelberg to Friburg in Germany, it took less than 2 hours by train, changing once at Manheim.Friburg is a nice lively town with ditches with clean looking water all over the town….

[July, 2011] This is a statue of a monkey located at one end of the Old Bridge (Alte Brucke) in the old town in Heidelberg, Germany. According to the leaflet I got from the tourist…

[July, 2011] When you cross Neckar River in Heidelberg’s old town to the other side, there is a walking path called Philosophers’ Walk (isn’t there a path with the same name in Kyoto?). This walk…

[July, 2011] This is a meal I had in Heidelberg in Germany. The meat is boar. The boar meat is more common than reindeer or bear I had this year, but still a bit special,…

[July, 2011] When I see a funicular railway, I always want to ride.Here in Heidelberg in Germany, you need to take two different cable-cars to get to the top of the hill called Konigstuhl.The lower…

[July, 2011] This photo is a bit dark as I took it in the evening, but the pink building is our hotel in Heidelberg in Germany. The hotel is called Hollander Hof and situated right…

[July, 2011] In Heidelberg in Germany, they were having the Bridge Festival for Karl-Theodor-Brucke (Alte Brucke), the bridge over river Necker. The musicians were all rather old and the audience who were dancing along the…

[July, 2011] Last time when I went to Amsterdam, I missed the flight back home and had to buy another return ticket.So this time I used that return ticket to Amsterdam for a small trip…

[June, 2011] The sound of cow bells is a part of the atmosphere of the Alps and make people feel rather happy.It is a good sound, but for cows it is the 24 hours’ sound…