25 May: Rest Day!!

We had a quiet day today; not a single church, museum or even train!!

After a relaxed breakfast etc, Des & I went for a walk (~15 minutes) to the local shops. There are two competing supermarkets. We did our shopping at EDEKA - wonderful choice of cheese, including Gruyère from Switzerland. Once we’d finished, Des had to take a nostalgic walk through ALDI which we know from holidays in Melbourne, see photo.

Drifting back, we ate our bread and cheese in the porch at the back of the house. There is a lovely garden, graced by the actual owner of the property, Louis the cat.

The garden has a goldfish pond, which today showed a glorious water lily.

The next night we were going to La Bohème in Lübeck, so I put on our favourite recording of it, and Des & I played Scrabble. I won’t say who won today, but I scored two 7-letters words …

We had a late dinner on a table out the front of the house, sitting in the sunshine - at 8pm!!

One of the features of spring in Hamburg: dawn at 0430, and evenings that extend till 2230! Czytaj więcej