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In Heidelberg: It was the holiday day after Pentecost Sunday, so the streets were not crowded.
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It's me.
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Narrow streets with buildings against each other.
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Towers above the other buildings
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Inside of a church with a service for Pentecost. Beautiful organ music.
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A plaza with Heidelberg castle on the hill in the background.
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Cool buildings
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The funicular to take us up to the castle. (Funicular derives from a word meaning cord. There are two cars on the end of a steel cable that alternately are raised and lowered on the hill. They alway pass each other in the middle.)
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Heidelberg from the top of the mountain.
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Famous stone bridge across the Neckar River.
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And up the river from the castle.
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Down river: Heidelberg from above.
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Close up of the big central church.
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Castle entrance over the dry moat.
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They kept bears in the moat at one time.
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The castle was rebuilt several times. This is one such section.
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This was left as part ruin. The statues have been replaced because the sandstone deteriorates.
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The courtyard looking back toward the entrance tower.
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This impressive tower ruin had been a powder magazine, but it had an accident. The cupola top of the entrance tower can be seen over the trees.
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In a lower room, they had a 50,000 gallon wood barrel. It had been used to hold the wine tax from the Palatine region.
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