{"id":206,"date":"2016-08-17T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-09-23T07:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T06:04:28","slug":"19-the-black-forrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/2016\/08\/17\/19-the-black-forrest\/","title":{"rendered":"(19) The Black Forrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must apologise about the lack of photos. \u00a0I spent hours trying but have not been able to upload them. \u00a0I am blaming the Internet connections I have. \u00a0Being over here really makes you appreciate what we have at home.<\/p>\n

Monday is a relaxing day and we don’t go too far from home. \u00a0A wander around the outside of the Lauffen Castle and then some time at the park with Luis, climbing on things, kicking a football and lazing on the comfortable lounge seats reading filled out the afternoon. \u00a0Rudi was working today as it was the last night for the Restaurant which was closing for a two week break but he had still managed to prepare us a big meal. \u00a0It seems quite common for things to close down here at this time of year for company holidays. \u00a0We had planned to tour the Audi factory which is just down the road but found it was closed.<\/p>\n

Tuesday and we are off to the Black Forrest. Rudi, Sabrina, Jens, Margaret and I in the VW Tiguan. It is a long drive as we keep away from the Autobahn taking the scenic route. \u00a0A bit of fun as the GPS kept wanting us to go on the Autobahn. \u00a0We stopped at Freudenstadt for refreshments. \u00a0Half the kids in the town were playing in this fountain which was the size of a small football field with jets of water all over it. \u00a0The water played to its own tune but kids and some adults had a lot of fun redirecting or stopping the jets. \u00a0Great substitute for a town swimming pool.<\/p>\n

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We carry on driving down the valley on narrow windy roads heading for Vogtsbauernhof, a Black Forrest open air museum. \u00a0We have a picnic that Rudi had prepared under the trees before heading in. \u00a0It gave a real feel for the Forrest people and the hardships they endured. \u00a0I wonder if in a coule of hundred years time people will wonder about the hardships we endure. \u00a0It had real examples of their life with houses they shared with their animals, the saw mills, the wheat and hemp grinding, \u00a0the store rooms and much more. Resin extraction, glass and tile making, the floating of logs down the rivers, cuckoo clocks. \u00a0It was a very interesting several hours and nearly 6 o’clock before we came out.\"bf-2\"<\/a>\"bf3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our trip home was via mountain roads \u00a0over a couple of ranges. \u00a0We stopped for dinner in Mummelsee on top of one of the ranges which was a very scenic spot with its own lake. \u00a0After dinner we coasted down to Baden Baden as we drove out in the dark we could see Strasbourg across the border in France. \u00a0At Baden Baden we hopped on the Autobahn and headed home arriving around 11:30, a very enjoyable day and a big day of driving for Sabrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must apologise about the lack of photos. \u00a0I spent hours trying but have not been able to upload them. \u00a0I am blaming the Internet connections I have. \u00a0Being over here really makes you appreciate what we have at home. Monday is a relaxing day and we don’t go too far from home. \u00a0A wander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}