In this post, I’ll be visiting the heritage from the German side of my family. I was born in South Africa to a German mother and an Australian father. Living in Australia makes my Australian heritage easy to see, and with visit, the German side of the story is filled in. I took the ferry across the river Elbe to Wedel and was greeted by Tante Elke who is effectively a grandmother to me. We made a brief visit to her house where I dropped off my things and we each enjoyed a glass of champagne while catching up on family happenings. With all recent news exhausted, we proceeded on a walking tour of Wedel which is essentially an outer suburb of Hamburg. Wedel is a fairly sleepy suburb populated mostly by retirees. This is evidenced
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