Tübingen, Germany

On Wednesday 16th November we travelled by train from Paris to Tübingen, via Stuttgart. Check out the speed of our train to Stuttgart! I can only imagine what it would be like in NZ if we had a 300km/h high speed train link between Wellington and Auckland...  

We spent our first two nights in a very quaint 1-bedroom Airbnb apartment, in the building below.

Tübingen is a picturesque little university town with a nice old castle up on the hill. Everywhere was walking distance so Will and I spent a lovely day on Thursday exploring.

Like a lot of European towns and cities, Tübingen has a beautiful old cobble-stoned town square.

 

 Here are a couple of panoramas taken from different angles.

 

 

 This town has some lovely old wooden buildings.

 

 

 

Will spent all day Friday at the University of Tübingen with his colleague Martin and I spent another day exploring. It was a bit grey and drizzly, but there was a pretty park by the river to wander around.

 

 

No matter what the country, or what the language barrier, I always manage to order coffee and cake!

That night the University put us up in a hotel. Will's colleague Martin and his wife met us at the hotel later that evening and took us out for a traditional German meal. There is a chance that they might end up on sabbatical in Dunedin, NZ later in the year so it would be lovely to see them again and repay their hospitality.

That was the end of our short stay in Germany. Next stop, and the final one on our European leg, Milan!