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Friday morning is a sleep in but we have to be down for breakfast by nine if we want any. \u00a0We decide we do. \u00a0The breakfast here dosen’t do bacon and eggs but it is very nice and a large selection of cold foods. \u00a0After breakfast we do a little tidying before heading off to Sabrina’s. \u00a0Not a lot planned, Margaret wants a haircut and Sabrina’s Oma comes home from hospital after a broken leg. \u00a0She is now in a new home where 8 older people have their own room and help each other. \u00a0They have a person to help them and a nurse on call. It looks a really sensible set-up. \u00a0Rudi had prepared a Vesper for lunch, a selection of cold foods. \u00a0As usual it is exceptionally good. \u00a0Sabrina, Margaret & I head into Heilbronn to check out where Sabrina began her career as a Pastry Cook. \u00a0Back home to where Rudi has cooked a huge pasta meal. \u00a0He makes the pasta from scratch, which he also makes for Kristian’s \u00a0restaurant \u00a0every day. \u00a0You can’t get this guy out of the kitchen, but that’s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong> we wake up to a beautiful warm summers day which had been missing since we set off for Hamburg. \u00a0 Another relaxed morning and we head over to Sabrina’s about eleven. \u00a0Sabrina is making a cake for one of her friends birthday and she makes one for us as well. \u00a0It looks fantastic and it tastes nearly as good as a Fruit Cake -:). \u00a0It is made mostly of cream and chocolate. \u00a0We head out to look at some Roman Ruins dating from 2AD. \u00a0Not too much left but impressed that they had pipes, hot water and baths. \u00a0It was in a beautiful setting above the Neckar River amongst the rows of grape vines. \u00a0You could see for miles, villages, rows of grapes toiled paddocks, boats on the river, and a nuclear power plant just up the river. \u00a0It was so peaceful. \u00a0It was back to the house where Rudi had cooked chicken breasts and steamed rice and chilli sauce, magnificent, and I know I am putting on the weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong> another beautiful day. \u00a0We are off to Heidelberg. \u00a0We travel mostly along the route of the river Neckar with Erica, Sabrina & Luis, Kristian’s nearly four year old son. \u00a0Probably took us an hour and a half with beautiful scenery and mayby 12 – 15 castles along the route. \u00a0There are heaps of cyclists out enjoying the weather, you could easily get lost on just the cycle paths as there are so many. \u00a0Heidelberg itself was just overflowing with tourists, aren’t they a pain. \u00a0We were going to take the funicular to the castle but the queue for it was long and then a big tourist group went straight to the front so we gave it a miss and went and got an icecream and walked over the fabulous old bridge. \u00a0The river was a hive of activity with commercial tours, kayakers, rowers and fiz boats. \u00a0Being Sunday almost all the shops were shut, we walked along the pedestrian mall which seemed like at least a couple of Kilometers long, spotted a statue of some guy Bunsen whom I am assuming invented the burner. \u00a0It was after 4 before we started heading home with a detour into Bad Wimpfen to look at a tower we had spotted on the way up. \u00a0It was in the middle of a very quaint medieval village. \u00a0We climbed the tower, met the lady who lived in it and had a magnificent view of the whole area before strolling through the village. \u00a0It was then time to head to Sonne, Kristian’s resturant for a Thai Beef salad and vanilla icecream with pumpkin seed oil. \u00a0A very nice evening before heading home to our hotel.<\/p>\n

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