Hotel Restaurant Kronenburg Bad Bentheim

so... die letzten Tage sind angebrochen,
in etwa 273 Stunden hebt mein Flieger ans andere Ende der Welt ab. Also am 11.10. um 21:20.
Ich fliege ab Düsseldorf, mit Zwischenstop in Dubai, gehts dann erstmal nach Syndey... 8 Tage Urlaub. Von da aus dann am 22.10. nach Auckland...

... a wonderful repast of cakes and coffee/tea (very good tea!). And then we visited the pen room! One can only view this room with admiration. Later, as I sat down and dug through Biggy’s duplicates, Pete and Bert went off on their own. Pete doesn’t speak any German and Bert not much English, but Pete said they had a very nice conversation and told me later about how Bert ...

... food. Given that this journey took me nearly two hours in a car, it was no mean feat on a bicycle.

Some farming family took pity on Dad and took him in. I don't know how long he stayed or where exactly the farm was, only that it was somewhere near Hengelo. For all I know, it was Sander and Renata's place. I doubt if there is any way of finding out now, either. At the end of his stay, they put him on a bus back to ...

... with horses and foals gambolling in the fields outside the windows. Sander and Renata are very friendly. They greeted us at the backdoor next to their metre-deep paddling pool. Despite the tepid temperature, the kids donned their costumes and leapt in, before we even got into the house.

After putting the children to bed, we talked for a bit. I had been on the go for 18 hours but I was having trouble sleeping. I guess the adrenaline was still pumping. Eventually I snuggled ...

... I started the first stage of my trip. My flight to Germany was over half an hour early, and after a journey involving taxi, plane, train and car, I managed to be in Havixbeck in time for lunch! In the afternoon, we went to the Havixbeck Carnival Parade...

... to the amount paid for the pass itself. Do yourself a favour & buy a metro pass. Stay clear of a Paris Pass & save yourself money in addition to avoiding confrontations with museum & venue staff. Other tourists with a Paris Pass at the venues we visited also had the same problems so it is apparent that this Pass is only a ...

... a halt, and we just sit in silence or maybe 30 seconds to a minute. No problem. It picks back up when someone has something to say. I think they have a rich culture of talk that we've decided we don't have time for. Coesfeld is a Catholic town. Annette sings in the choir. Mutti is very observant. One of the first places she took us to was the nearby monastery for Vespers. The monastery has sheep grazing on the campus and a bookstore along with other buildings. We walked up just ...

... along the Aasee was really beutiful and serene. The Promenade was like a mini trail of parks with trees all around. Speaking of the Aasee, another activity which I really enoyed by the "boat ride". Ok, we didn't really sat on boats, but more like on paddlers (think East Coast Park in the 90s when there was the big paddling thing with huge wheels). Oh and we also rode on the metal sampan - Nurul and I made Hui Kai row for us ...

We woke up, sun was shining and after having coffee and breakfast we set off to Muenster. To tell the truth we had a mission...: to buy a folding camp table. Sounds easy you say? Before this day I would agree with you. But after spending half a day for buying this table I would not. It`s beginning of August and nearly impossible to get ...

... the visits I have made since I first met Moni in 1982 but it all seemed smaller, perhaps I have grown. Raimund had already printed off the diary so knew what we had been up to for the first few days. I drank tea as I think I had overdosed on coffee earlier. Excellent cakes especially the apple one. Then we were out in the garden again to search for more eggs which of course the kids loved doing. We walked up to the local play area where the boys could ...