Ladenburg Town Festival

Today a group of us decided to follow our teacher’s recommendation and head to a neighboring town called Ladenburg for their annual town festival and flea market. We all had a great time as you can see by the picture below of one of our group hamming it p for the camea.

The streets thoughout the old town section were draped with blue and white flags and tables lined both sides of the roads. The center of town near the old church had music and food. It was really fun, and I finally got to eat some bratwurst here. It is funny, the town I am staying in has such a high tourist rate, it is actually hard to find traditional German food in restaurants here.

Walking around this town you could see remnant of the old town wall. We were told this wall dates to the Roman Empire when Ladenburg was a fort along the Rhine River. While walking through town you can see different areas of town have these ruins throughout, many of them are used as walls for current houses, others just run randomly through parks and yards.

On the way home we missed our bus and had to wait an hour for the next one, so after wandering back though town for a bit we finally caught a bus headed to the trolley stop about 20 minutes away. Then just to be more exciting we caught the right trolley but going in the opposite direction of where we wanted to go. So we realize this after 2 stops and we get off next to a giant field in the middle of no where, and quickly catch another trolley headed in the right direction. This trolley however does not go all the way to our destination, it only goes a portion of the way, so we have to get off when it reaches it end and wait about 25 minutes in another trolley stop in the middle of no where. The trip that took us only about 35 minutes in the morning, took us more then an hour to complete on the return journey. But we made it home safe and just in time, as our housemates were preparing a huge meal with enough food to feed half of Heidelberg. After this exhausting day I am ready for bed, so while they sit around chatting I am crawling into bed until tomorrow.