Trip to Heidelberg Schloss - Saturday April

You can see the spikes of the castle entrance poking down... Don is showing Evan

Waiting for the RufTaxi

in a little German restaurant in Altstadt (Old Town Heidelberg)



Evan taking pix of himself... silly boy


a beautiful old Church Steeple

heidelberg Castle from below in Town Square - you can see blown out section on right


At top outside in "court" looking down onto Heidelberg and the Neckar River below

Architects of the Castle


The Green area is the Mote and the tower you see was the old Dungeon

The library was behind me...now in Rome, but what is left of the library:)


Mote from another angle


What it looked like at one time...





Dungeon from another angle


Not sure who this is... but it was from Evan's POV (point of view)






A fireplace...outside!

walkway leading to a tunnel that was closed in for war to keep enemy from viewing inside.  Hall leads to Dining Area





A bit of a mood breaker here... "bored"

Inside Castle walls...in the court

Inside castle walls/doors/gates...this also is the court area




no clue whose head this is...


Awesome Sundial

They got to climb fabulous stairwells... Emma was in her dreams!



No Smoking or Smoking is Forbiden


Steep Stairs for little legs!

An Old Chest!  Mom would love to have seen this!

Many many pains of beautiful stained glass

Many of the interior doors were so ornate with wonderful wood carvings


Emma wants these stairwells in her home leading to her room! :)  love the dreams of a child!

The Chapel, this is under the castle


Old Pipe Organ

One of the original statues from the outside walls inside the courtyard

Wine Barrel...large, but not quite the largest...you can see a standard size next to it...

World's LARGEST wine barrel...you can see the people (normal size) below

Don heading to the top of the world's largest wine barrel

Evan on top of the world's largest wine barrel

Don and Evan at the Castle Gate