One Wednesday, James and Katie, a lovely couple from Australia, travelled with me from Heidelberg to Luzern where they were going to stay in the renowned Art Deco Hotel Montana. On our way to Switzerland, we decided to visit two scenic castles: Lichtenstein Castle, which is also called the “fairy-tale castle of Württemberg,” and Hohenzollern […]
One sunny Saturday in September, I had to go to the small village of Weiler near the city of Sinsheim, some 25 miles away from Heidelberg. I knew only two things: that my passengers would arrive in a helicopter and that their next stop would be the soccer stadium in Sinsheim where a game of […]
During their four-day stay in Heidelberg, I had the pleasure of showing a very nice couple from the United States my home town and its vicinity. In the afternoon of the last day before flying back home, one of my guests wistfully remarked that he would have loved to have visited Mainz again since he […]
On a Friday in autumn I got the assignment to pick up two people at the five star hotel Europäischer Hof in Heidelberg the next day. Although the only information I had regarding my guests were their two last names, I called the reception desk and left my mobile phone number in case my passengers […]