TRAVEL TALES of ranaruby

at a cute little University town in Germany Almost two decades since I first stepped into this romantic little University town in Germany. On an assignment at Nijmegen, Netherlands, I had decided to spend a few days at my brother-in-law’s house in Dreieich – a quiet suburb, around 10 km from Frankfurt International Airport. A museum dedicated to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the first rigid airship ‘Zeppelin’ is in Dreieich, quite close to my brother-in-law's house..  I was excited when my niece Tanya drove me down to Heidelberg, about 100 km from Frankfurt. The main reason being I longed to see the place that boasted of the oldest university in Germany and one of the oldest surviving universities in Europe. The Schloss, a romantic twelfth-century castle. overlooking the university town below, the river Neckar (a tributary of Rhine), and the hills beyond were breathtaking views. Enough to instill a feeling of love at first sight. No wonder Heidelberg is...