For our last weekend in Germany we decided to stay close to the Reutlingen area. We decided that we would do one last regional travel on Saturday. We also happened to recruit a few of the other English speakers that we have met throughout the semester to come along. We decided to take a trip to Bebenhausen which involves hiking. Only this time the weather was perfect however we managed to find a fluke in our plans.

To start the trip we had to take the train to Tubingen. However due to safety rules, the trains running to Tubingen were not functioning. We all wandered around until we found the Train station bus station (it only took us four months to realize that there was a bus station at the train station) where we were told there would be a bus to take us to Tubingen. So we had to pile in and out of the crowded bus. Once we got to Tubingen, the directions said to head north on a street that we could not find. So we just started to wander north. After about an hour of wandering and a bus ride leaving us in the middle of Nowhere, Germany, we finally found the path to Bebenhausen.

Bebenhausen is an old monastery that has turned into both a tourist attraction as well as a cute timbered house neighborhood. We decided not to take a tour of the monastery but we wandered around the courtyards and just soaked up the sunshine. There was a wedding so we were once again able to see lederhosen one last time before our departure. Overall it was the perfect afternoon excursion even with the wandering lost in the middle of fields. It is one of the random but perfect memories I will remember from studying abroad.

 

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