"Unsere Kleine Molkerei" (Our little milk store) is right down the street from where we live. They make their own cheese, yogurt, and you can buy fresh milk and eggs.

The Metzgerei is on the other corner of Rappstrasse and this is a meat market. While I have purchased meat there, I usually go to the grocery store.

Germany is very serious about recycling (I think the whole world should be). It was a little overwhelming figuring out what goes where...the gelbe sack (yellow sack) contains most of everything...plastics...metals, glass gets set out for Helmut to take to the glass recycling, paper and cardboard gets picked up once a month, and biofall (biodegradables) is put into a large green container that is set out weekly. I always have a nagging guilt taking out the mounds of diapers to the grey abfall (trash), that is practically the only thing that isn't recycled.

This is the Kornhaus built in 1453 that was previously a granary. Now it is the Stadtmuseum (since 1991). Tuebingen has many of the half-timbered buildings. Some of these date back to the 15th century.