Going on...

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We're heading on to Lübeck today, on a sleeper night train, and planning to take a walk today. I am waiting for Owen to get back from the bakery with the beautiful sugar cookies they make here. I had real Schwartzwald Kirschekuchen (Black Forest cherry cake) yesterday and we got chatting to a random man who was a biker himself and had been several times to the rallies on the Isle of Man. Apparently one of the reasons Freiburg is so nice is because it is a liberal university town, much more tolerant of odd people and specifically in his case homosexuals than in a lot of Germany. I have to say, I really like it here. As we'd guessed though, being foodies, all our splurges money wise have been on food. And Lübeck is of course the capital of marzipan...

What else to say? I am really enjoying Germany, or at least what I've seen. The whole place has a beautiful kind of air, markedly different from England. Beautiful picturesque houses straight out of the Hans Christian Anderson world stand side by site with Blue Spot internet points. The station has a standing display measuring air quality. It's a romanticism tinged with a practicality that can only have come from this being a mining and woodcutting area. Did you know the guild sign here for a baker is not a loaf but a pretzel? 😊

Also, happy birthday mum!

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Comments

[Graeme]

Hello fair wandering nomads!
Wow, sounds like you are having a great time... not envious at all... Finally offed then, we were wondering if you would turn up on Friday. :oD. Keep safe and keep blogging. I will keep reading and keep in touch.

[wandering rose]

Thanks!
:)