The Philosophers Way and Auerbach town

Earlier this week we went back to Heidelberg, and followed the philosophers walk up the hill, on the opposite bank of the Neckar River, so there were different views of Heidelberg Castle. It was a very peaceful walk up above the university, with fantastic views all round. The walk also passed some expensive houses and some very sought after allotments with a warm microclimate.
On Saturday we took the train up to Auerbach (on the way to Frankfurt), another charming town full of old half-timbered houses. We had lunch at an old mill, now a beer garden, the original mill on the site was built in 1475. After lunch we walked on up to Staatspark Furstenlager, which was a grand park where Dukes and Counts had made a summer residence in a valley, based on the design of an English country village. There is a spring where they built the summer residence that was thought to have therapeutic properties.
Tomorrow we are going out to the vineyard to have a BBQ with some of Daniel's friends before for we fly out the next morning to our stopover in Singapore.Read more