Tubingen, Germany

Here are some of the pictures from the weekend... This was a great little town that we stumbled upon. We had to chase down living permits in Stuttgart Germany and managed to just spend Friday and Saturday night in this charming little town. Great mix of new/old here as it is an old town near the Black Forest and parts of the German wine region. They have a university in town, schooling about 23,000 kids. According to a some "locals" that were were on the boat with, it only costs about 600 EURO per semester. Sounds like quite a deal. We noticed that German University students keep very similar hours as their counterparts in the US. This was discovered two ways: 1) notice the picture of the bar in the photos (link above). This was empty at about 9:30 when we walked back from dinner. K made a comment - "oh, that is so sad that the bar is empty - such a neat little place". By 11pm the place was packed and they probably didn't quit til 3am. So much for a quiet getaway... :) 2) The following morning, we decided to walk around the University. From about 8-11AM we didn't see more then 5 students on the grounds of the university. This town is highly recommended though, particularly if you speak German (we still don't). That made the museum tour in Tubingen Castle, challenging at best. The local shops and farmers market stands made for some good chatter. One other strange note, this town seems to have an abundance of spiders. While we didn't come across any, you'll see about 5 picutures in the album of spider webs we came across on our walk Sunday morning. There were litterally hundreds of these throughout the walk...