Harvey Travel Arts

Brian enjoys Starbucks. Before we met, I had only been to Starbucks two, maybe three times. I don't drink coffee, and I didn't really have a reason to go. Now I have grown to enjoy our regular trips to Starbucks; I can get a wide variety of non-coffee beverages: tea, hot chocolate, steamed milk, cream frapuccino. But the point is, the stores have become commonplace and mostly trendy little boxes that all look somewhat identical. However, this Starbucks on the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg is the most unique location I've seen. I'm not sure what the building was in its history, but the architecture is still preserved. The round loft is the most popular spot; so much that we have never seen it empty. Even the rest of the store is usually full of people, but we found a rare moment to get some photos of this great little spot. Enjoy the view!

I'm going through all of the random photos in the to-be-sorted folder. As I said in my last post, these are some old photos that have been scanned in from a disk. This one in particular took me down memory lane, and was a little bittersweet for me to find. It is a photo of one of our favorite restaurants when we lived in Heidelberg. Granted, this Cafe Journal location is actually in nearby Schwetzingen; the other one was on the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg. The restaurant served delicous soups, sandwiches and salads for a nice lunch, or tasty entres for dinner. We preferred this location because it was a beautiful location to not only people watch (as you can do so easily on the Hauptstrasse), but to take in the beautiful palace across the road. This town had a great squre where the restaurants all were, a farmers market, and in the winter, ice skating. Some friends of ours lived there and we enjoyed spending many afternoons or evenings visiting the town. We really miss liv...