Our last day to just relax at my mom‘s before we‘ll be back on the road tomorrow! We had Sunday breakfast (which entails coffee and soft-boiled eggs at my mom‘s) and then all four of us went on a walk to the Botanical gardens. That was fun, especially since Kai could practice his German with Imke, who asked him lots of questions about his trip to Greece with his dad.
We came home around noon and puttered around with laundry and packing, and then had pasta with vegetables and meatballs for dinner. Mark and I took a little nap and then went for a very long walk (7 miles / 10 kilometers) to the lake nearer to my mom‘s old home, so we had to get there first and then walk around it. It is a lovely relaxing walk, lots of people were out and about on bikes, on foot, and even on horseback, and we also walked by an open-air bar near the Westerberg just as the buzz of excitement triggered by the first match of the World Cup involving Germany began. Many people here watch the matches jointly at bars and on major roads that get set up as „Fanmeilen“ (fan miles) with huge screens, and that‘s kind of fun to see, even though we don‘t give a hoot about soccer.
We returned around 5:30 and then wrapped up the day with the usual evening meal and the last of the packing. Tomorrow, we‘ll drive to the Baltic!