Some garden in the middle of Mannheim
A very nicely furnished interior of the church in Mannheim
The huge pieces of meat on this huge satay stick, lol, with pure wine, the rest of them had wine-schorle, NUBs! lol, kk, j/king.
Some ruins at Frankensteinburg, doesn't the doorway look like a face?
First time that close to a horse, they are really beautiful.
Me n W at Frankenstein
Me and A at this uber old catapult, if i'm not wrong its from the 1200s.
On this very saturday, me,J , W, BM made a trip down to Mannheim. When i'm writing this its already the 6 Aug, I don't quite remember what we actually did on that day. We were there, walking around, looking at more churches n old buildings. Its getting kinda repetitive already and therefore boring. We were walking around in town and I remember we had this jap lunch at this small stall run by a taiwanese. Of coz the uncle there looked happy when he actually saw more chinese patronizing him. As what most chinese will do when they see chinese in a foreign country, we got some special treatment - free soup and extra tea if my memory still serves me. Next up was this funfair we went to, i'm not sure if it was kind of a impromptu event planned but it sure does look quite normal to me other than the helicopter ride that it offered. Well... other than some foodstuff they sell there and kiddy rides, somehow it was like a flea market as well, for cars, bikes, sofas and many other stuff. Well... it was normal so I din really get a shot of the place. I did wanna get this dragon thingy there as it looked kinda cool but J mentioned it being as evil or something... as my father says... if someone mentions smthing like that, better believe than not. Next was the S-Bahn ride, their S-Bahn indeed is more posh than those in Darmstadt, sorry no pics for that as well, n well so much for the automated toilet, the first time i've seen a toilet stuck and people just use it as it is. The bowl was like overflowing - the joke was, i went into the toilet first after W, W mentioned something like something was spoilt, didn't really expressed herself that well... until I went in and saw it for myself. It was like 'OMFGWTFBBQ!'. The fluid in the bowl was like going to overflow anytime soon and u can actually see it swaying here and there following the train's movements. It was like if i'm gonna use it first, J wouldn't be able to sit on it you see, coz it was seriously near the brim. So I went out and kindly let J use it first. It was the joke of the day. Some crazy shit on the train man, luckily nothing solid was floating on it, lol. After that we went to this small town where there was this small fest happening. Suppose to taste the wine there, but I ended up getting a glass only. As usual, J and W had to try them but just refused to finished this glass of schorle( its wine mixed with carbonated water), they were sharing somemore. I wondered y wasn't I that nice to just buy a glass myself n let them try mine instead rather than having the pain to push the drinks here and there. Oh well, its over already. Once again, they were selling this huge satay stick, Speiss, i think that's what they call it. Very nice, tender and the same time juicy, man, i do miss it. Think it'll cost a bomb for such a huge stick of meat in singapore. Well... guess this marks the end of Sat.
On Sun, me, W and A went down to Frankensteinburg. It was like on top of this mountain near our stadt(Eberstadt) and it will kinda be a wasted trip if we didn't get the chance to get to the castle which is at the top of the hill in Eberstadt. The journey up was a pain man. I mean its been so long since I ever last exercised and I see older folks going up like effortlessly, bikers as well. Some foresty sceneries up, nothing interesting, juz that W got panicky coz there were a few orange slugs, lol. Personally, i've never seen them before, they looked kinda ugh, i dunnoe how to describe it. Well, but the thing is, even for a guy, when they see something they don't really like the feeling of it, we are suppose to keep our calm. Freaking out seems to be the unique _______ of gals (sorry can't think of the word to fit it, dun mind suggestions though). Anyway, you ppl get what i mean. Ok, I should stop the deviation, anyway we got to the top of the castle in an hour's time. Well.. we could see Darmstadt, Eberstadt and Frankfurt on the top. There was another town we saw coz my host did mention about it but well.. i forgot what was the last town's name. Nothing fantastic really, just that the locals like to climb up this hill on weekends as a recreation and then enjoy an alfresco lunch / breakfast at the top of the hill. Very nice indeed, sad to speak there's no such thing in singapore, no peaks for us to enjoy the wind and the feel the magnificence of nature. As much as i love nature, i fear it at the same time. Humans are just so weak compared to the predators or living fears of nature. Humans die to a snake bite, or insect bite maybe, can't outrun land predators nor outswim the sharks in the sea, jellyfish can kill humans as well, if you are thinking of the not so fast. That's how fragile how humans can be. Anyway, we had an encounter with this couple who breeds horse, they are beautiful I must say. Had a couple of pictures with the horses. After that we just made our way down, almost got lost though, haha, coz we didn't take our original route down, just anyhow wack through the forest. Seriously, we walked until there's no foot tracks to be seen, lol, luckily we hit the road and asked for directions, lol. What a joke.
