Alright it has been over a month since our last post, but
that is still more frequent than I check Facebook. We returned to Germany 5 weeks ago, after our
3 week North American tour. So I have been
thinking of some of the differences between US & Germany (and Europe in
general). I will post those in a separate
blog in a few days, so as not to overwhelm our readers. But first here what we have been doing most recently.
Betsy has been furiously reading about Cobalt and rewriting
a manuscript for publication. This takes
most of her free time. This lets me play
with my weather station, which I have been piecing together –so I too have been
reading technical journal articles, but on weather stuff, instead of geology
stuff.
We have making Friday evenings our time to go out to restaurants,
and see town. A week and a half ago we
went to the only Mexican restaurant we know of.
It is in the middle of Tübingen, on the Neckar River; and the view is
better than the food. But we really went
because one of Betsy’s colleagues, Katja, works there part-time, and for the
happy hour margaritas.
The Neckar River is a great place for boating, especially
during our week long heat-wave when the daily highs were over 35C (95F). Several weeks ago, we went out with Katja,
Martin, and James (all colleagues of Betsy), on a paddle boat. We paddled around the 1km long man-made
island, which has some of the most picturesque views of Tübingen.
A few days later Betsy & I went out in a row boat.
This past weekend we took a bike ride up the Neckar River. There are lots of bike paths all over Europe,
and the Neckartal-Radweg (“Neckar valley – riding path”) is popular for cycle
touring. It is 410km (255miles) long
from the source of the Neckar to where it empties into the Rhine. Betsy & I road 60km upstream from
Tübingen, and then took a train to get back home.
Blog themes coming this week: food, difference between US & Germany, what
spouses do in Germany, and European travel.
