September 2006

Mark Twain wrote in his A Tramp Abroad: “…Dilsberg is a quaint place. It is most quaintly and picturesquely situated, too. Imagine the beautiful river before you; then a few rods of brilliant green sward on its opposite shore; then a sudden hill–no preparatory gently rising slopes, but a sort of instantaneous hill– a hill […]

I went there on my own when my hb was busy at his conference. It is only 15 min by train from Heidelberg and I thought it won’t take me a long time to explore. It was naïve of me to think that, of course – I’ve spent whole day in Manheim and it wasn’t

The summer capital of Europe, a place where past centuries’ upper classes meandered along the pretty river, enjoyed their baths from the thermal springs and were having romantic affairs…How can I not see it with my own eyes after years of diligent learning from classic literature about Baden-Baden being a place that inspired Dostoyevsky for