{"id":142,"date":"2016-05-31T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:44:12","slug":"531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/31\/531\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 31, 2016: Osnabrueck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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City Gate<\/p>\n

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Downtown<\/p>\n

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Fields within walking distance<\/p>\n

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Ducks on the lake<\/p>\n

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Swan taking off<\/p>\n

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Field of little yellow flowers<\/p>\n

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Miniature horse<\/p>\n

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Today was another fairly quiet day with lots of walking, about evenly split between city & country, since my mom\u2019s house is right at the edge between the two. \u00a0We walked downtown to the busy city center this morning and met my mom there, who had biked there. \u00a0Most of our tentative shopping missions (shoes for Kai, a Chromebook for my mom) were unsuccessful, but it was a beautiful, summery morning with blue skies, and we had lunch outside at an old haunt of ours, a cheap little outfit called \u201cBottled,\u201d which is good for pizza and a salad (Kai had French fries), and which is right next to a busy playground. \u00a0We\u2019re no longer in the running for this or for the kids\u2019 menu, but it features, as its last item, a fabulous \u201cpirate platter\u201d for 0 Euro: \u201cKids get a plate of their own and steal from mom and dad.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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After lunch, we took the bus home and bought some cake for our afternoon coffee on the way back to my mom\u2019s. \u00a0A nap and said cake restored us, and Mark and I went for a 4.75 mile walk through the nearby woods and around the lake (\u201cRubbenbruchsee\u201d), alongside many walkers, joggers, and cyclists. \u00a0We havd fun watching the ducks, geese, and swans on the lake and the eerily quiet water which looked like it was being snowed on by the ubiquitous linden fluff. We also walked by one of our favorite buttercup meadows in full bloom, and by our favorite lawnmower, a scruffy little pony among several sheep. \u00a0It\u2019s hard to believe that all these countryside summer pleasures are so close to the city! \u00a0It was still warm when we came home, and we had dinner outside under my mom\u2019s apple tree. Now we\u2019re all packed for tomorrow\u2019s adventure–the train trip to Munich! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Gate Downtown Fields within walking distance Ducks on the lake Swan taking off Field of little yellow flowers Miniature horse   Today was another fairly quiet day with lots of walking, about evenly split between city & country, since my mom\u2019s house is right at the edge between the two. \u00a0We walked downtown to … Continue reading “Tuesday, May 31, 2016: Osnabrueck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}