The Fairy Story

Frankfurt Day 3

So, the plan was made the night before that we would get the train (cycled there! knackered after it) from F'furt (F) to the pretty city of Heidelberg (H) which is 1.5 hours on the train (a double decker very clean and of course German style on time!!) (take note Scotrail!).

H was flooded last week and the river was still high so no strolls down it. There is a lovely big castle on the hill overlooking H but I see castles in Scotland so I took 1 pic but not worthy of a blip.... This is much better..

We stopped at the place opposite this for sausages and fried potatoes (nice but that's enough sausages) and after a while noticed this tall attractive Man, the poor old man and the nice waitress across the street from our cafe. We had been going to sit there but Gillian couldn't bear to look at the old man, it would make her cry, as his feet were also bandaged up and he couldn't lift his head... As we were eating we decided that this was the hot guy's (HG) dad, he owned the cafe and that was his daughter working in it, as they were very chatty and at ease with one another. And he was chatting to the old guy. We decided that we would horse the sausages down our throats and saunter up there then sit for coffee as we decided we would like to meet the HG.

As we walked up there the first part of the story became flawed as the old guy got up, paid and picked up his heavy bags and shuffled away and a son wouldn't let a poor old man with bandaged feet carry heavy bags.... As we were going to sit the HG went into the small inside bit of the coffee shop. For some reason i decided to go back where we had eaten to the toilet, G went too but waited outside. When I was there G was approached by a freaky German who, when I returned, offered to take us over the bridge, up the wooded hill to see the town and castle from that side. Then he said we could come with him to a BB king film. I asked 'who is in it'? He looked at me strangely and in a superior voice said 'BB King of course'!!! I meant who is the actor, as he is dead I said (maybe he isn't dead but I thought he was)! We made up a story about us meeting an invisible friend called Gemma, but otherwise we would have). He left and we zoomed over to the coffee shop to see where HG was......

But.................... remember i said that HG went into the Small coffee shop, well, he wasn't there and as G had been on lookout from over the road, he must be in there somewhere, maybe as he is the owner, he has gone upstairs!!! We decided to go in and try to find out more about him from the waitress. Like gradually engage her in conversation, like spies!! Well, we are professionals as we found out this.

1. Hot guy is a university professor (not the owner) :( who comes in 3 or 4 times a day for coffee (that's why they were so chatty, he is always there).
2. The old guy has never been there before, she said no one sat there when he was sitting but he was clean, paid for his beer and could speak.
3. She has worked there for 1 year, is at uni studying as a special needs teacher, has four years plus one year placement to complete her degree.
4. She lives in the south of Germany (can't spell the town).
5. Likes the Scottish castles.
6. She wasn't supposed to be working that lunchtime, but the owner had an appointment (don't know where) in town. A male owner!
7. There is a storeroom of drinks at the corner of the bar as G went into this room thinking it was a stairway. She went in twice to investigate (not sure why twice)!
8. The coffee shop was awarded the best coffee shop in Heidelberg for 2013. I asked if she knew when the judges were there. No she said.

If you are ever in Heiderberg the name of the coffee shop is Casse del Caffe. It's near the bridge......

Evening meal - after taking bike down the escalator to the subway, an Italian !
Couldn't sleep very well as had drunk too much coffee.

Ps this is true it's the part that we made up ourselves that isn't !!

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