{"id":1430,"date":"2018-07-01T20:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2018-09-08T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:17:33","slug":"sunday-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/01\/sunday-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, July 1 (Osnabr\u00fcck)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coffee on Wolfgang and Maya’s balcony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coffee with Ingrid and Ralph from Aachen in Imke’s garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Today, we had basically a friends day. After breakfast, Mark and I walked with Imke to family friends I\u2018ve known since elementary school days, Wolfgang and Maya, who have been on vacation for most of June, so that we didn\u2018t get a chance to see them before. We had coffee on their balcony and talked about our respective trips, mostly in German, so that Mark\u2018s contribution to the conversation was mostly showing the photos from our trip on the iPad mini. We had a good time, and it was great to see them again and hear about their 5 grandchildren.<\/div>\n
We then walked back home and rested a bit (I reread a children\u2019s book that I recently re-purchased\u2014I must have read it hundreds of times as a kid, since I remembered individual phrases and minute details, but I also know that the last couple of pages were alway missing and you had to imagine the finale! Now I have the complete novel and could finally finish it all the way!) Then we got ready for our afternoon visit\u2014more long-time friends, this time a friend of mine from my high-school days and her husband, stopped by for the afternoon. We\u2019ve always managed to see Ingrid and Ralph on our German trips, but typically we come to see them in Aachen. This time, it worked out that they were coming back from a weekend with her parents, who live near my hometown of F\u00fcrstenau, and took the slight detour to stop with us for almost 3 hours. We had coffee and brownies (a la mode!) in Imke\u2019s little walled garden in the shade, and talked about travels, politics, and their awesome daughter, Kati\u2019s childhood friend Nora, who is now studying political science and will be spending 3 months on an internship with the prestigious Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in DC this fall. Again, we had a good time but spoke limited amounts of English, so I think Mark was a little bored. But I am so glad we got to see them!<\/div>\n
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After they left, Imke made us a lovely dinner of vegetarian stuffed peppers (I made the salad), and Mark and I went on another walk, with a new destination and some new nooks and crannies of Osnabr\u00fcck we hadn\u2019t explored before\u2014we walked to a historic apartment block in the Liebigstra\u00dfe and looked at the architecture \/ design of various early 20th-century townhouses, and then walked along the river Hase back to the cathedral and then home. It was nice to just get some exercise, and with the weather having been just fantastic not-a-cloud-in-the-sky summer weather, it was really nice to say good bye to Osnabr\u00fcck that way.<\/div>\n
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Today, we had basically a friends day. After breakfast, Mark and I walked with Imke to family friends I\u2018ve known since elementary school days, Wolfgang and Maya, who have been on vacation for most of June, so that we didn\u2018t get a chance to see them before. We had coffee on their balcony and talked … Continue reading “Sunday, July 1 (Osnabr\u00fcck)”<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}