Day 7: 18/04/06 Heidelberg
View from Schloss Heidelberg
An alchemist's apparatus
Student Prison: Looks more like a pub to me?! We didn't have a very good day as it was cold! We went to the castle Schloss Heidelberg in the morning; it was a fortress built in the 14th century and was subsequently destroyed during a war with the French; the fortress we see today consist of a mosaic of 14th century original and partially blown up towers with more recent add-ons.
It was quiet on the streets; however, once we got up the fortress, tonnes of aunties and uncles from Japan, Korea, China (absolutely no Singapore) and other parts of the western world came into view. We were quite surprised (after a few cities we got used to it) and later Tk read that the sight of the fortress from below was comparable to the Parthenon in Athens. So we see.
We bought a combined ticket which granted us access to the cellar with a very huge (211,726L)wine barrel the princes used to store wine (there could even be a platform on top of it). There were a few significant facades facing the courtyard, it wasn't exceptionally interesting. More interesting was the pharmacy museum housed at the basement of one of the buildings. It described to quite some detail about the development of medicine in the west and on display was quite a lot of interesting artefacts. The distillators and boilers the alchemists used to use looked cool. And to pharmacy students: like the doctors, you have an oath to follow too. (Germany: oath of Nuremberg, c. 1350)
We had our sandwich (it was small and not enough...) and biscuits for lunch in a garden facing the city; it was when the coldness was at its ultimate strength boosted by the wind. It started our trend of finding a spot in every city/town which had a very good view to stop for lunch.
In the afternoon we went back to the hostel for a good nap (first and last... precious...). We were tired for no apparent reason...
We visited the university after we woke up; the small museum has rich content but it was ALL in German; we have to guess what those 2 interesting experimental set-ups were. We visited the old hall where they hold their ceremonies. The most interesting feature of the university was the students' prison; in the past, the university had jurisdiction over the university students and the students were not punished by civil law. Instead, the university imprison their students in this small little house, where little restriction was actually in place. There were intereting grafitti all over the walls (e.g. an octopus, all kinds of crap stories, naming their cell Palais Royal etc.); you can imagine it could be few times more wild than our army camp bunks.
Yj needed to use a computer to talk to his grand-junior so we went to find an Internet Cafe before dinner He was really glad with that and kept MSNing (to his grand-junior I suppose). Tk and me took advantage of the rather cheap facilities and that's where we communicated with Singapore first time after Munich. And since then, grand-junior and Internet Cafe became Yj's trademark.
P/S.: If anyone is interested in Medical History, I recommend this book The Mysteries Within by Sherwin B. Nuland. It tells a lot of interesting stories and illustrated the ancient ideas towards medicine/pharmacy/understanding of human body very well. As usual, if anyone wants to borrow from me, I have the Traditional Chinese version :)
It was quiet on the streets; however, once we got up the fortress, tonnes of aunties and uncles from Japan, Korea, China (absolutely no Singapore) and other parts of the western world came into view. We were quite surprised (after a few cities we got used to it) and later Tk read that the sight of the fortress from below was comparable to the Parthenon in Athens. So we see.
We bought a combined ticket which granted us access to the cellar with a very huge (211,726L)wine barrel the princes used to store wine (there could even be a platform on top of it). There were a few significant facades facing the courtyard, it wasn't exceptionally interesting. More interesting was the pharmacy museum housed at the basement of one of the buildings. It described to quite some detail about the development of medicine in the west and on display was quite a lot of interesting artefacts. The distillators and boilers the alchemists used to use looked cool. And to pharmacy students: like the doctors, you have an oath to follow too. (Germany: oath of Nuremberg, c. 1350)
We had our sandwich (it was small and not enough...) and biscuits for lunch in a garden facing the city; it was when the coldness was at its ultimate strength boosted by the wind. It started our trend of finding a spot in every city/town which had a very good view to stop for lunch.
In the afternoon we went back to the hostel for a good nap (first and last... precious...). We were tired for no apparent reason...
We visited the university after we woke up; the small museum has rich content but it was ALL in German; we have to guess what those 2 interesting experimental set-ups were. We visited the old hall where they hold their ceremonies. The most interesting feature of the university was the students' prison; in the past, the university had jurisdiction over the university students and the students were not punished by civil law. Instead, the university imprison their students in this small little house, where little restriction was actually in place. There were intereting grafitti all over the walls (e.g. an octopus, all kinds of crap stories, naming their cell Palais Royal etc.); you can imagine it could be few times more wild than our army camp bunks.
Yj needed to use a computer to talk to his grand-junior so we went to find an Internet Cafe before dinner He was really glad with that and kept MSNing (to his grand-junior I suppose). Tk and me took advantage of the rather cheap facilities and that's where we communicated with Singapore first time after Munich. And since then, grand-junior and Internet Cafe became Yj's trademark.
P/S.: If anyone is interested in Medical History, I recommend this book The Mysteries Within by Sherwin B. Nuland. It tells a lot of interesting stories and illustrated the ancient ideas towards medicine/pharmacy/understanding of human body very well. As usual, if anyone wants to borrow from me, I have the Traditional Chinese version :)
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