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A Tourist in Heidelberg

So, promptly upon arriving home from our visit to Heidelberg, I developed a nasty cold (seems I can’t catch a break these days in the training department). Anyway, this just means that I’m going to slap up a few photos here and call it a post, then go take another nap.

We stayed with friends in neighboring Eppelheim and spent a good deal of our short visit walking around Heidelberg’s Old Town — visiting the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Church of the Jesuits, touring the Castle, and riding the funicular up to Königstuhl (for amazing views of the entire area!).  I even managed to sneak in a long run — from Eppelheim towards the center of Heidelberg, along the Neckar River, then turned around and headed back.  To sum up, Heidelberg is a gorgeous little city with beautiful buildings, tons of history, lots of tourists, and plenty of restaurants and bars (that like to attach glow sticks to their cocktails).

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Altstadt
Town Square
Altstadt
Altstadt
Church of the Jesuits
Church of the Jesuits
Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle
Neon
Neon
Easter Eggs
Easter eggs
View from Königstuhl
View from Königstuhl
Altstadt at Sunset
Altstadt at sunset

Okay, nap time.

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This Time Last Year: April 2009

This April, I’m still coasting from a trip back to Seattle in March, will be spending Easter in Heidelberg, and will be cobbling together my last minute training for the Hannover Half. Last April? I had just returned from a two-week study tour, spent Easter weekend in Scotland and was wrapping up my training for the Hannover Half-Marathon.The same, only different, huh? Check out the posts here:

Home Sweet Home: I am back in town and before I say anything else, I want to thank Suzanne and Emily for filling in for me while I was away.  I hope you enjoyed their posts, because I know I did! I admit that I did have visions of sharing a wonderfully long trip report with you, but after a two-hour run yesterday that wiped me out, plus  staying in bed all day today with a sore throat, the enormous number of details to convey from a two-week study tour is overwhelming…

Irgendwo in Schottland: We have been back from Scotland since Monday night, but somehow I have not managed to sit down and write a blog post since then. Maybe it is because I have a nasty cold that has been holding on for the last two weeks. Or maybe because there has been a lot to take care of and prepare for at work. Or maybe it is the fault of those 600+ photos we took on our trip…

Learning through Imperfection: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here I go again writing about language. I can’t help it, really. As a stranger in a strange land, language is one of the dominating forces in my life these days, and I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about vocabulary, grammar, and communication…

Weeks Seven to Ten: Just because you haven’t heard from me in awhile about my half-marathon training, doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening.  Well, mostly…

Week 11: I was all jazzed up from watching the Hamburg Marathon today.  The course ran just down the block from us, and there is nothing that makes me happier than waking up just a little bit earlier on a sunny Sunday morning, coffee in hand, and cheering on thousands of marathon runners…

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32 Things: Update Four

I’m coming into the home stretch of my 32 Things list, and can already tell which things are and aren’t going to be happening this year. More on that later, but in the meantime, how about I fill you in on a few things that I have been making progress on:

5. Read five of the books on my reading list. Two down: My Name is Red and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I am now working on Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.

21. See Ben Harper in concert again. By absolute chance, we found out he is the opening act for a show we already have tickets for in Berlin in June. Really, how much better does it get than that?

22. Visit my newest nephew once he makes his arrival in the world. Had a wonderful trip home to see family in March.

As of late, I’ve been very inspired by the idea of a Life List (like over here and here), mostly because it would let me include things that are bigger and grander than I could handle in one year. At the same time, I still like the immediacy and some of the practicality of the birthday lists (see 30 Things and 31 Things). So, I’m contemplating the possibility of doing both, but: Should they overlap? Is that too many lists? Would that get too complicated?

If you have any thoughts, let me know!