On the first weekend of October I went to see my friend Christiane in Meiningen. The town is rather small and located in the centre of a triangle between Leipzig, Kassel, and Würzburg, surrounded by forests and meadows. It took me a while to get there by train, also because the journey was kind of chaotic with delays, but finally I arrived and Christiane and I had a sundowner on a roof top bar, Fronveste, a former prison. Then we went for a fantastic vegan dinner to Sächsischer Hof. In Meiningen it is not common to be a vegetarian or even a vegan, but Christiane apparently was such a great ambassador of veganism that the cook was more than happy to suggest a wonderful vegan meal to us. The next day we went to Auenland, ‘The
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