There has been a long break in this travel log - the main reason was the dysfunction of the computer. Now it is in service but a number of our files have not been replaced from A.'s computer to ours. No pictures as yet - I'm not sure when we'll get them up and going again. You experts out there, is there another way to get the pictures on the blog except from the computer? Say from a CD or the memory card in or out of the camera?
Wed. May 16th.
Cousin Suzanne took us to Ludwigsburg (castle) in the area of Stuttgart. She took us by S bahn and it was much easier than the day before when we went the same route by ourselves and had so much trouble. Just goes to show if you know what you are doing it can be so smooth.
Ludwigsburg is a huge place on the same level as the rest of the city making access much easier. The Castle is over 300 years old - young compared to some of the other places we saw. It has extensive gardens but a separate fee is charged to visit them so we opted for an indoor tour at this place. the residence has 452 rooms our guided tour included about 60 of them.
The rooms were beautifully decorated and the original decorations are still there and very much intact. Naturally there is evidence of wear and tear in some areas. It also includes museums of period clothing, paintings & ceramics.
We had a delightful guide who according to Suzanne had a very strong accent of some sort. He told us many things about the rooms we visited and the history of the family interspersed with local 'jokes' all in German so I didn't get much of what was going on - Helmut translated some for me. (The usual way the translating goes is; something is said in German, H. gives the gist of the idea in English, many more things have been said in German in the meantime so we both have missed somethings. Eventually H. phases out as a translator on such tours and I do lots of looking around, a little understanding and a lot of guessing or just quit paying attention to the narrative.) After a few days you don't remember what has been told or you mix the various places up in your memory.
This outing took the whole morning but we were back at Suzanne & Achim's in time to have midday dinner prepared by Achim for several neighbors and ourselves.
Later that afternoon Achim took us to the local forest area so that we could do some walking in the woods. it was an enjoyable and relaxing time - cool and windy.
I wish that I could show you some of the pictures of Ludwigsburg and also of Hildrizhausen forest.
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Glad to see that you are continuing the story of your trip. It will be nice to see some more pictures too.
Listening to the foreign language and finally tuning out, is kind of like a one or two year old trying to talk on the phone. It's a draw who tunes out first. Love, Pat
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