We spent most of the day yesterday in Tübingen, a beautiful university town that we both hadn't visited before ... mostly walking around the old town, having a coffee or two and an icecream. (The icecream was especially good.)
Most of the Tübingen postcards show the romantic view from the Eberhard bridge, and this blog entry is no exception. Students sitting on the wall above the Neckar bridge, boats loaded with tourists being punted around like in Venice, the yellow Hölderlin tower where the famous poet lived in the early 19th century.
And then it began to rain (earlier than forecasted) and we had to sit under an umbrella of a street cafe. I had found a copy of Attar's Conference of the Birds in a little bookshop, and read a little while we waited for the rain to stop.
Later in the evening, we met our friends Niele and Günther for dinner. We hadn't met for six years and it was wonderful to see them again, in a restaurant overlooking many miles of the Swabian landscape. Here's two photos of us and them - no, not the gorillas, we're at the bottom of the page :)
Niele and Günther are currently busy preparing the logistics of a large Java Developer conference. After this they'll return to their regular job of running a successful web design business. I might do a little Flex application for them - we'll see. I want to learn Flex but it is difficult to learn something as complex as that without a project. This might be the chance.
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