Last Days in Germany

Its hard to believe that its Thursday already and we have been here a week. Its our last full day and Thomas is taking us to a lovely little historic town called Bensheim. Its about halfway towards Heidelburg.

We arrive on a lovely sunny afternoon where there are lot of locals wandering around going about their business. Apparently its not the tourist mecca of other places, and its hard to understand 'why not? '. It has a lovely village feel to it and the houses and central piazza area are very old and very original and protected by law. There's even a wee stream running through with a lovely medieval bridge to cross.

After a nice look around Thomas directs us up to the top of the hill to a wee vineyard. During the walk the views are wonderful. The grapevines are all starting to move and they have around 800mm of new growth on each main trunk. All the wine produced here is white.

At the top we sit at a table overlooking the valley and drink some wine and taste some local specialities. Lovely, relaxing and warm.

Tonight we are going to dance at the last milonga for this visit. Its in Heidelburg and so we go back to Thomas' apartment to eat and get ready.

This milonga is run by 3 lovely ladies - Irma, Anneta and Birgit. What a lovely wee bar they have found to host it in, and we want to take it back to Wellington.

The following day its time to pack and try to assemble together all the stuff we have spread all over Thomas' apartment. It takes a while! But I think we found it all.

Frankfurt airport - final goodbyes over coffee with ladybird cups - promises to come back....

Thankyou Thomas and Simone.....

Thankyou to all the lovely new German friends who made a huge effort to speak to us in English and include us in their plans.

German hospitality is awesome :)