Ride a white horse

Posted in Life, Travels by Pino on July 14th, 2008

Heidelberg

During the weekend I went with Christian, Frank, Manni and his friend Gabina (or Gabi or Gabine, I still don’t understand the best way to name her) to Christian’s hometown, Heidelberg, in southern Germany. I have never been there before, although it’s definitively one of the sweetest German cities.

On Friday afternoon we picked up the car we booked some weeks ago but we immediately had a lot of problems. We were both supposed to be registered as official drivers but eventually my Italian driver license was rejected! They said I could have faked it because the release and expiry date were handwritten. I was furious! No, furious it’s an euphemism… I wanted to go to the police but eventually Christian didn’t mind to drive 1500 km in 3 days

On Saturday we visited Heidelberg which is a really nice town as well as the set of a cruel murder in the anime series Monster… Anyway, we strolled around the center which is of course very touristic and full of Americans who are based there since after WWII. We also climbed 315 steps to the magnificent castle and eventually I could meet Ronin, ilGrisa’s Taiwanese friend I was introduced to while I was visiting New York City.
Late in the afternoon, back at Christian’s parents’ place, we had some coffee and a delicious homemade cheesecake I still didn’t manage to digest After that a huge BBQ. Yes, I definitively put on weight! I don’t even wanna know how much.
At night we went to Connexion, a disco club in Mannheim. It was incredibly fun! The music was really nice (distributed on 5 different dancing floors) and the location terrific: I definitively need to go there again

I like dancing
At the disco
I want blisters
You’re my leader
I wanna ride on a white horse
I want to ride on a white horse

We were back at 6, which meant we could sleep only 5 hours before having breakfast with the family again and leave then already for Berlin Christian and I were exhausted, while Manni and Gabina managed to sleep a bit in the car.
Apparently, Christian’s mother really appreciated me and told him more or less