A few days in Ulm

It's been a while since my last trip to visit my team in Ulm, so time to prepare myself for a few days of Scwhabian food, culture and perhaps the odd Hefeweisse.

I arrived in Munich late Monday evening, and much to my surprise, ran into Tony (who works in my team) at the airport! Nice surprise, so I didn't need to drive down to Ulm on my own...

My Ulm visit started properly with a night out at Zur Zill, a rather nice little bar/restaurant by the canal. This time, thankfully, the weather was also suitably warm (the sun rarely seems to come out during my visits to Ulm for some odd reason). Most of the usual suspects were there – Olli, Jose, William, Sakari? David; and my good mate Sami from my days in Southwood. Things proceeded as they usually do in Ulm; a couple of hefeweisse, some Schwabian food (which normally means pig and potato), followed by Eisbock (an evil and strong potion masquerading as beer) at Zunfthaus der Schiffleute (one of my favourite eating/drinking establishments in Ulm). The predictable headache materialised the next day, yes thank you very much... ;)

On Wednesday, we had a rather nice team lunch at a Chinese restaurant near the office. Pretty good value food, and tasty too! In the evening, I had a rather calm evening, dining at Restaurant zur Lochmuhle, a very nice little eaterie by the canal. A sort of slightly higher class version of Zur Zill, where we'd gone the night before. Excellent food, for a rather reasonable price!

Thursday was the last night in Ulm, so we decided to have another “team meal” out – this time we had Mexican at a restaurant rather charmingly located on the Danube river, with rather nice views. Unfortunately, the famous Ulm rain assailed us rather quickly, so we ended up inside. Anyways, the food was pretty decent – I had a go at the famous Mole sauce (a chocolate sauce spiced with some chili – of course!) – not a bad choice. After the meal, we naturally ended up going to that famous Ulm institution, Barfusser. No visit to Ulm is complete with a hefeweisse or two at Barfusser. So an appropriate way to end a rather busy week in Ulm, then!