Sorry I’ve been late in sending the posts.  I hope to send daily from now on, wifi willing.

A long steep walk up to the castle produced a rare hill climb that took my back pain away. In the afternoon a walk through two villages between a river and the railway line completed our walking day. One of my favourite things that also make me a little more connected to my new home is to provide info to locals. As we walked up to our front door there were two youngish men trying to ring the owners. I knew the other hotel where the owners lived and took them there. The owner was the woman above and maybe she has a connection to them as well. By the way, our home was world heritage listed but the price wasn’t.

We’re off today to Naumburg but we had an hour to fill in before that fabulous little train arrives to take us to our next walking spot. So we went walking along this mercedes wide road and on both sides were aldi truck wide strips of land, one or two shacks, vege patches, gnomes and other paraphernalia. Normally it would seem these would be house blocks.

Next we were in a bus and at about 1.00 30 kids hopped on. I thought they may be operating like they do in France where they go home for lunch then back to school. Not so in much of Germany – they go home at 1.00 and stay home – ‘whoopie’, or do fun things at school until their parents return from work.