Today, a wettish Thursday, was declared a great day for nothing much.
With Alice having a cold and her seal-bark cough beginning to set in, we started out with a slow breakfast and then went to meet Lisa’s mother and use their washing machine. After apple strudel (with ice cream!) for lunch we sat on the couch and looked through a great many of the photos to date, after backing up most of them onto DVD so that we could also see them bigger on the TV.
When the washing finished we dropped it off and went into town for a little look at the old centre (the fan shaped bit), and also Alice bought some suitably comfortable trousers for our forthcoming train trip, having decided a few days back that the jeans she bought with her were not up to it and had to go.
The old town centre is pretty nice, and also adjoins to what is basically the main shopping/eating district, so we can see now how Karlsruhe (with 275,000 inhabitants) could be called ‘small’. Apparently the castle (Schloss) in the middle of town was actually built by Karl so that he would somewhere to visit his mistress. And what a mistress she must have been, because it’s not a small castle.
Then we went home for dinner; which was a thing like a pizza but with a different dough. It’s an Alsace specialty which is referred to in Germany as flamekuechen and just over the border in France as tarte flambee. Holger’s family arrived home from their annual caravan trip to France so we sat around after dinner talking, somebody beat someone else at fussball (no names available), and that was about that.
Greg
