My visit here in Heidelberg is drawing closer to the end, and I have started to enjoy my time here so much now that I wish I could stay even longer. But well, I am returning for sure in late august at least so I just have to wait until then.

The days have been filled with much work of course, that was the main reason I got to come here, but also meeting lots of new people and getting a feeling of that german everyday behavior. The code that I will use in the project are now compiling and running, tomorrow monday (which will be my last day here) I willplay around some more with the codes and get familiar with them.

Apart from that I am meeting with Thomas Henning, one of my supervisors. We are hopefully going to talk a little more specifically about the project; its aims contents and so on. I am looking very much forward to it!

Yesterday was kind of my first opportunity to really inspect the city and its surroundings. I had read about a zoo in Heidelberg so I made a visit there yesterday, accompanied by a long walk around the city. The zoo I was disappointed to see was very small, but on the other hand I should have expected it maybe, but the long walk was wonderful. The weather was hot, towards the later part of the day before the sun went down I noticed a board saying 37 degrees. Yikes! So when I returned to the hotel after my 6 hour walk my t-shirt was soaked in my sweat.

After the walk and about an hours rest, I met up with Alexander(previous master student in Lund) and his girlfriend Maria to watch the game of Germany - Uruguay. The game was intense and not as well predicted as I had anticipated, Uruguay really made Germany work for the bronze, but in the end Germany won at least.

To wrap this already wonderful day we walked down to the river and watch the fireworks which I understood is a tradition occuring the first saturday of June, August and 2nd saturday of July in Heidelberg as a way to attract tourists. It was a spectacular show!

Down below you find a few pictures from my walk yesterday, some from along the Neckar river and some from the zoo.

Although it might seem like fresh water, the Neckar river is quite dirty and I doubt I will be swimming in it anytime soon. But the view here taken from one of the bridges is still lovely, views in Lund is nothing in comparison.

Here you see a view from the side of the river, and you can discern maybe how dirty the water is. Still there seems to be plenty of fish in the water and hopefully I can get a chance to do some fishing some time.

The elephants at the Heidelberg zoo recently got a little baby, who you see here throwing some sand over him to cool down.

...while the seals where just lying in the sun working on their tan?
I also found a bunch of kids sitting around this giant boulder of a turtle. It was huge, slow and very hungry apparently as it ate and ate and ate and ate, not taking any interest to the number of people around it.