Sommer Freizeit Denmark 2008

Wow, look what I can do. Better late than never! I like it! Shame you can't see all the pictures, but it's pretty cool. I will have to work on my skills! It was sooooooo..... easy!

TODAY

Looking out our front door to the hills and railway line

Looking out our loungeroom window


Out our front door after the snow plough has been through

Yes, we've had our first snow today and we are loving it. Very special for us Aussies living in Europe. Sure is a treat. We are snug inside and preparing for a wonderful Aussie dinner party tonight. Roast chicken and vegies and Lemon Meringue Pie. Yum

OUR THURSDAY

We've both been rather busy these past few days so today we have been trying to catch our breath. I haven't felt like doing much of anything, so needless to say I haven't achieved much!

The past couple of days I have been cooking for an Apero (supper) we had at Centrepoint last night. It was an information night on "What the Banks don't tell you" and it was all rather scary listening to what Herr Kurt Kamber had to say. Greed is a dreadful thing and there sure is a lot of it in this world. Here I was thinking that the Reserve Banks were owned by the Government, but this is certainly not the case in the USA or in Australia!

Roger and I went shopping today at one of five of our local supermarkets. What a happy experience it was. Not only did we manage to get a whole small turkey for 10 euro (about $15 Aussie) but the lady on the check out was quite priceless. We don't shop that much at this supermarket because it is rather expensive compared to Aldi, but the staff are always so polite and friendly.

They have this great system here in Germany for the return of bottles and plastic bottles, also glass yogurt containers. You put them through a special machine which then prints out a docket (say for 1 euro or whatever the bottles come to) which you present at the check out and they take this amount off your shopping account. We did this today, but forgot to give it to the lady at the check out, so I went back and waved my little docket in the air. The lady just laughed and immediately attended to me and gave me my 1 euro 1 cent! We always have a smile on our face when we come away from shopping.

We love living in Schopfheim, needless to say. Sorry, no pictures of us venturing out with our 'Rolls Royce' shopping trolley (in Australia we would call it a Granny trolley, but my goodness, have we got some use out of it).

It's freezing here. I really don't want it to be Winter. It was dark at 4.30pm. Not nice at all. Plus we are being invaded by blow flies (YUK) and we have no idea where they are coming from. We killed about 30 today. Usually we never get flies inside. They must be coming in from the cold as well.

S I S T E R S

I had to wait 2 years and 2 months to see my darling sister Irene again. Irene and George were travelling in Europe for 2.5 months from August and we had a little rendezvous for a week at the end of their travels this past week. What an absolute delight it was for us both to catch up and do lots of talking, eating, playing Chinese Checkers (we're both as good as each other ! ! ! ) and of course cups of tea. Twinings Prince of Wales for Lady Irene and Twinings Earl Grey for Lady Gaynor !

A silly little highlight was racing up the 4 flights of stairs to beat the boys who insisted on using the lift in the apartment we were staying in. Once the light went out, and we were gropping our way to the landing to find the light button and could hardly contain ourselves with giggling. Needless to say, the boys beat us that time!!

In the kitchen enjoying.....yes, you guessed it TEA

(and cheese and biccies of course)

Cottesloe Beach ? ? I don't think so

Have no idea what this was all about, but it looks fun ! I love it !