Hasta Luego, see you later, Sevilla and lovely friends we have there!
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| Orange blossom buds |
Happy Easter to you all! Good Friday and we've finally got a sunny day - yippee!
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| Painted and unpainted Easter eggs |
About our last couple of days in Sevilla.
Ivan took us to lunch at Yebra, one of his favourite restaurants. The wait was long but food worth it. Including an extremely
large plate of beef which surprisingly we finished. Vegetarians - skip this photo.
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| Wow! |
Good-bye lunch with our friends Ivan, Pepe, Ryan
and Angela and it was fun but a little sad.
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| Ivan is happy to have his motorcycle repaired and useable. |
Planes, trains and automobiles again folks. Fly day Sevilla to Zurich with stop over in
Mallorca. Left the flat at 14:00 and arrived at 23:30 at the hotel, long day. Special
taxi for Bruce’s chair arrived on time.
Bruce getting wheelchairs helps us both, he carries
Lexi on his lap and the backpacks go on the back of the chair so no heavy
lifting and no problems finding our destination gate I just follow the wheelchair
attendant, no bread crumbs required.
A word about the Barcelona to Stuttgart flight that
went down into the French Alps, same day we flew on same type of aircraft. So
sorry for those families. Friends in Canada wrote to make sure we were
okay, friends from Sevilla immediately checked our talked about schedule and
concluded we were okay, thank you!
Zurich Airport hotel, Radisson is modern and room
quite large, well equiped in all ways. It’s expensive but wouldn’t want to be
shuttling off to another that late in the evening, by that time of 23:30 we’re all tired and just want to settle as soon as possible. As it was, good
walk, ride to get to it and the handicap guide lead us there, kind of him.
Trained from Zurich to Freiburg. Bought the tickets the same morning and
amazingly they were able to get us wheelchair assistance (usually required 24
hours advance notice). One stop, Zurich Airport to Zurich main train station,
longish stop in Basel but didn’t have to get off. Freiburg and we see the twin
towers of the church on the other side of the bridge, we’re home.
Unfortunately for me this time, didn’t fill me with
awe and gladness it has other times. Guess I was tired and my heart still in
Sevilla, gray skies also. Cab to the hotel where they have made room for us
even when fully booked. We’ve stayed in this family run hotel for three years
now off and on and they know us. http://www.central-freiburg.de/default.aspx?lang=en
Big welcome from the owner and she’d purchased
a ramp for Bruce’s wheelchair. Bruce drove from the train station and
arrived safe and sound to go up the ramp. They put a cute sign on the door to
warn the cleaners not to come in due to Lexi and give us a fruit bowl and
cookies as a welcome gift. She helped me up with the luggage, Bruce hadn’t
arrived yet, and I said “we’re home!” which she liked to hear I think. I really
wanted to show appreciation for her and staff’s efforts.
They do a good breakfast there which we enjoy, then
off to the Munster Market for Bruce to get his favourite South African dried
apricots, he doesn’t like the Turkish ones usually available everywhere else. A
visit with Helen, the olive wood dealer, originally from England, I like to say hi to her
and have a chat.
Our partners picked us up in their rented olive
green roomy jeep and we’re off to a hardware store to get odds and sods for
Bruce’s bike. On to lunch to find a couple of places closed but found a favourite open in Staufen and had a wonderful meal. I had trout again which is so very
well done in Germany and so fresh.
Then we went to our flat for the ritual of glass of
champagne to celebrate seeing each other again and the changeover of hands from
them to us, this time. It’s a nice way to welcome the other party home. We
caught up on the building and area news and start the process of informing each
other of what’s been done, maintenance issues and generally enjoying each
other’s company again. They leave on Saturday so we move into the flat then.
Note on occupancy, we found it easiest to have the occupying couple stay in the flat until they leave (means not moving twice) and the incoming couple stay in a hotel, it works well for all.
Then went to a typical German hotel and restaurant
for lunch. Food good, local men playing cards at a table and having a beer.
Walked through a bit of the high end with clothing designer shops, beautiful
spring like colours! In fact all the shops now have spring and summer wear in
them, same worldwide I think, guess more noticeable on a dull day.
Unpacking, dealing with four months of mail,
laundry, finding things we haven’t used for months. That is all what happens
when we return to our lovely flat in Freiburg. We miss our friends in Sevilla
and the good weather, but Ivan said, you get to experience two spring times!
This is good, the trees are blooming and daffodils line the highways so pretty. Just a bit colder than we are used to but another good thing – it will
warm up soon.
First time in a very long one we stayed in all day,
well, trips to the storage locker in the basement do not count. We both
puttered and got a lot done so it was worthwhile but not exciting. Bruce cooked
a steak with home made pepper sauce and we had salad with it. The meal was as
good or better than we’d get in a restaurant. It was a nice change, the whole day in
fact. I don’t want to stay indoors every day, get out at minimum for a walk but
being tired, being Sunday, it was lovely.
Good Friday and a sunny day Mundenhof here we come! Spring time means babes of many breeds.
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| Oinker lunch time! |
Going past the camel enclosure I said, there are more camels in there than usual. Coming back this is what we saw.
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| Not an every day sight! |
Happy Easter one and all! Cheers, Bev, Bruce and Lexi Cat
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