Last Sunday the weather miraculously turned to a sunny 67 degrees F. It’s only February, people! Whatever, after living in Seattle for five years I have sworn not to question nice weather ever, ever again. So we made the most of it and went on a leisurely bike ride up to the neighboring village of Bebenhausen. (Side note: Since Curt and I are silly dorks, up until this point this town was merely a running joke for us: Every time we drove by we would say in our best Wayne’s World voice, “Dude, do all the babes live in Bebenhausen?” Yes, we really are that mature:) But seriously, we had heard from a few people that it was a nicely preserved medievel Schönbuch village with an amazing church and cloister, so we really felt like we needed to check it out. Well, plus I had two free tickets for the cloister from Tübingen city hall’s foreigner office—I guess they feel like they need to show us “auslanders” where to go to absorb the German culture! It was a great day; After this cold winter, my first ever really, it was so nice to be in the warm sun wandering through the cobblestoned streets of Bebenhausen (umm, note to cyclists who are newbies like me: be careful walking on old hilly streets in your clipless shoes!) The village is pretty tiny but it does have an impressive gothic church with some very well-preserved artifacts from when the monks were the only inhabitants.
I am sad to say, however, that after an exhaustive search we came to the conclusion that there are no Babes in Bebenhausen.