Rainbow and Oh, Yes, I'm Irish .!!!.

Hello,

I'm Irish (and stillCanadian) Diddly diddly do... Now for the passports, approximately 12 weeks they say.

Wow! Saw this beautiful rainbow out our window the other morning! Wonderful!

You know how sometimes the sun is just right for photography? This was one of those times.

The leaves are changing colour as they are everywhere else, so pretty!

We've been researching most of this week which makes for boring copy on a blog, but just a little bit of what happened. We are going to the UK the end of November. There are many rules about bringing pets across the Channel. The UK doesn't quarantine any more so Lexi just needs the usual, it's the transportation that is the issue. We cannot walk on a ferry with her, we were told she couldn't go through the Chunnel due to air pressure. So we've been scrambling to look for a way to get her across and just about decided to hitchhike a ride with someone at the terminal! Hiring a car doesn't work either left hand vs right hand drive etc. Now I've found a cab company that will take us across - Yeah! Relief! I am going back to our local travel agent and educate him. He is good but had never booked this trip for people with an animal before.

So we are booked now with a taxi service from Folkestone. The fellow who I've been corresponding with has a good sense of humour. Two of his comments:

"Stevan will be waiting for you at Calais Frethurn station at 13:23 on the 28th November. He will have a name board with your name on it but do not worry there will not be many ladies with a pet coming off that train."

 

"I was aware of two of you travelling but you only pay extra for your pets, your husband travels free (that will make him feel important,  about the same pecking order as in my house)."

We also grappled with Schengen 90/180 days rulings and European Zone rulings but too complicated to explain here. Know we've got it straight now, finally, thanks to our partners who have "been there, done that" research.

This week we've been to an Indian restaurant with fabulous food and service, nice surroundings. Also to a restaurant who lost eight patrons in the space of half an hour due to lousy service and a very grumpy waiter. He almost pushed them away! It was a sunny Saturday and we just wanted to people watch outside on the terrace. We ended up getting a young fellow to wait on us, friendly, and speaks five languages. We asked because we heard him speak Spanish, English to us, and French to another couple.

Here is a picture of a "Wine Office" called a Weinstube. I liked the angel signage. I Google translated the word again but have found that Google isn't always correct. It shocked me to see that it even translated a week day incorrectly.

There is another "angel" restaurant on the other side of the Munster Platz called the Golden Angel. Inside it is just stuffed with cherubs! Stuffed!

Here are some wild looking doors in Freiburg! Every time I walk past I've intended to take a picture so there you go, finally done.

Bought new duvet covers I just love! They area picture of a field of brightly coloured flowers, complete with blue pillow shams for the sky. Was going to take a picture but seemed a bit over the top to send a picture of our bedclothes! Trust me, they are beautiful and really brighten up the space. Backtrack... Bruce said I should so here you go... and the pictures that complement chosen by our wonderful partners. You can barely see a small lump in the middle of the left, that's Lexi, guess she likes them too.

Warm and sunny here the last few days so we've been downtown at the market mostly. A waiter now recognizes us at the Eis Cafe (Ice cream cafe, confusing when you ask for ice in your drink). He came over and shook my hand to welcome me back. It's a good people watching place so we go there fairly often.

So next blog hopefully will include pictures and story of our trip to Lahr for the chrysanthemum festival!

Cheers, Bx2 and troublesome traveler, but not her fault, Lexi Cat