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Jacques woke up with a sore head this morning after the Rodalben festival with Frank 🤕 😂

📍 Frank took me for a walk through the forest near Rodalben, it took about 5 minutes uphill from the house to get to the forest. Really pretty views of Rodalben from the top. He explained the track goes the whole way around the town in a circle, 42km in total and there is a marathon once a year.

📍 Drink stop @ a pub in the forest! Apparently this was one of Pop’s favourite spots. This was so cool! Hidden amongst the trees on a hill. Frank explained there’s several of them in the area and they are ran by all volunteers, similar set up to the German Club in Morwell. Want to bring Jacques back here before we leave!

📍 Home for a relax before heading to Eva’s house in for the afternoon. Straight away I recognised the house when I saw the Australian flag out the front 🤣

We met all Eva’s friends and saw her best friend Eva again who visited Australia with her in 2008. We had cocktails and their famous flammenkuchan which is the French version of pizza with sort of like a pastry base. Because they are so close to the French border all the ingredients are easy to get. Michael cooked them in the wood fire pizza oven, so yum 🤤

We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking Eva’s cocktails, listening to an Aussie playlist and Jacques swam in the pool with Levi which was funny to watch. Michael talked to me about some interesting history behind the Americans who still occupy several parts of Germany after WW2 for military purposes. At around 5pm, the ice cream van went past (like Mr Whippy) and Levi heard it before anyone else 😂 he ran straight out the front yelling “ein chocolate eis” which means one chocolate ice cream, this was so funny. We also went for a quick walk with Levi down the road to show us the animal shelter 🐐

Beautiful day with everybody! ❤️Read more