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Article: `Old Heidelberg, you fine thing, you city rich with honor'; It attracts 3 million tourists a year - and no wonder. With beautiful buildings, quaint streets and a ruined castle, Heidelberg, Germany, is its own postcard. Just don't visit in the busy summer.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1996
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Maybe you always love the place where you first taste independence - not your home, I mean, but where you first roam free, where you really grow up, where you come of age and get an inkling of who you are going to be.
So maybe I'd have loved Sioux Falls, S.D., or Opelousas, La., as much as I love Heidelberg. But I doubt it.
I spent a small slice of my middle teens in a rural boarding school where my greatest delight was cutting classes and sneaking "into town." I think it helped greatly that "rural" was the German countryside and "town" was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
Because I had nothing else to compare it to, I thought ...