Wahlstedt

Very late breakfast, but breakfast at the last hotel on the trip could rank as the best. We walked into NMS and saw the Meyn's house (36 Roonstrasse) with my old window (the left side in the two attic windows), then the school I first went to in 1975. After that we went shopping for a few presents. We can report that NMS has only one shop selling Australian wine and only one shop selling a particular type of marzipan, and they are both hard to find. Google Maps is no help.

At 2pm Jule and Tscorsch (a nickname - real name Joerg) picked us up and we drove to Wim and Dorit's' house on the Einfelder See (lake) - about 15 mins. Checked their heritage-listed Bauhaus-style traditional red-brick house, had Kaffee und Kuchen, walked around the lake (8.2km), which meant going past another house I had stayed in for a few weeks as i did the rounds of many kind-hearted Rotarian families in 1975, saw the house that one of Dorit's sons is building 100m away, had a swim in the lake (with the 15 deg water slightly brown from the peat swamps) and then dinner in the late evening sunshine. Great fun all afternoon, and mostly in English. We left a little early (8:45pm) when it was still sunny, but Wim and Dorit are driving to Holland with friends tomorrow for a 1 week cycling trip (50-90 k per day).

23,835 steps, 18.6km and no flights.... except tomorrow at 3:30pm. We will get a bus from the NMS railway station straight to the airport. It takes 50 minutes.Read more