Friday morning is a sleep in but we have to be down for breakfast by nine if we want any.  We decide we do.  The breakfast here dosen’t do bacon and eggs but it is very nice and a large selection of cold foods.  After breakfast we do a little tidying before heading off to Sabrina’s.  Not a lot planned, Margaret wants a haircut and Sabrina’s Oma comes home from hospital after a broken leg.  She is now in a new home where 8 older people have their own room and help each other.  They have a person to help them and a nurse on call. It looks a really sensible set-up.  Rudi had prepared a Vesper for lunch, a selection of cold foods.  As usual it is exceptionally good.  Sabrina, Margaret & I head into Heilbronn to check out where Sabrina began her career as a Pastry Cook.  Back home to where Rudi has cooked a huge pasta meal.  He makes the pasta from scratch, which he also makes for Kristian’s  restaurant  every day.  You can’t get this guy out of the kitchen, but that’s not a bad thing.

Saturday we wake up to a beautiful warm summers day which had been missing since we set off for Hamburg.   Another relaxed morning and we head over to Sabrina’s about eleven.  Sabrina is making a cake for one of her friends birthday and she makes one for us as well.  It looks fantastic and it tastes nearly as good as a Fruit Cake -:).  It is made mostly of cream and chocolate.  We head out to look at some Roman Ruins dating from 2AD.  Not too much left but impressed that they had pipes, hot water and baths.  It was in a beautiful setting above the Neckar River amongst the rows of grape vines.  You could see for miles, villages, rows of grapes toiled paddocks, boats on the river, and a nuclear power plant just up the river.  It was so peaceful.  It was back to the house where Rudi had cooked chicken breasts and steamed rice and chilli sauce, magnificent, and I know I am putting on the weight.

Sunday another beautiful day.  We are off to Heidelberg.  We travel mostly along the route of the river Neckar with Erica, Sabrina & Luis, Kristian’s nearly four year old son.  Probably took us an hour and a half with beautiful scenery and mayby 12 – 15 castles along the route.  There are heaps of cyclists out enjoying the weather, you could easily get lost on just the cycle paths as there are so many.  Heidelberg itself was just overflowing with tourists, aren’t they a pain.  We were going to take the funicular to the castle but the queue for it was long and then a big tourist group went straight to the front so we gave it a miss and went and got an icecream and walked over the fabulous old bridge.  The river was a hive of activity with commercial tours, kayakers, rowers and fiz boats.  Being Sunday almost all the shops were shut, we walked along the pedestrian mall which seemed like at least a couple of Kilometers long, spotted a statue of some guy Bunsen whom I am assuming invented the burner.  It was after 4 before we started heading home with a detour into Bad Wimpfen to look at a tower we had spotted on the way up.  It was in the middle of a very quaint medieval village.  We climbed the tower, met the lady who lived in it and had a magnificent view of the whole area before strolling through the village.  It was then time to head to Sonne, Kristian’s resturant for a Thai Beef salad and vanilla icecream with pumpkin seed oil.  A very nice evening before heading home to our hotel.