.arrival to Mannheim

.today was a big day. Guests arrived! To be more precise, my little sister Sasa and our friend Dano :). There are no direct bus lines to Saarbrucken so they were picked up at Mannheim. This was also a possibility to walk around another city. Due to the big traffic problems because of snow in the Czech Republic and also partially in Germany (only partially, Stuttgart and all the south east Germany are fighting with snow, yet here in Saarbrucken we haven't seen any so far this winter) the bus arrival had a big delay (3 hours). We've almost frozen during our wait on the parking place with Igi (temperatures are below zero after a long time)...

Anyway, after all the waiting we were ready to start our crusade into the old city centre ;). Mannheim is a very old (766 AD) and relatively small town (307,640 inhabitants). Main district consists of strictly regularly shaped streets and of a few sights (very few, to be honest). Worth of mentioning are Wasserturm (water tower, on the pic) and big 18th century palace (now a university)... So all the tourist stuff can be done in about an hour or so :).


So now I have my sister here (at least for a week) and that means a lot of traveling and other interesting stuff is going to happen, so stay tuned ;)!