After a hectic scramble to prepare our house for rent and pack our suitcases for 6 months of climatic extremes, we finally took off for Deutschland on Thursday 10th July.
The flight was awful, as expected, so it was nice to be welcomed by family members who woke up at 3:30am to collect us from Frankfurt airport. During the two hour car trip to Essen, fighting slumber, we all had the sense of arriving somewhere very familiar, or as Mia said "it feels just like Adelaide". The first 15min of scenery could have been replayed 8 times over, so little did the rolling hills clad in dense green forests, intermittent farms and immaculate cities, alter. Such consistency and orderliness is comforting when you're putting normal daily routine in check for a while.
Eventually, with ankles resembling an elephants and a great desire to lie down horizontally, we found our new home - a 4 story purple apartment (we have the 4th floor and attic). Both girls were totally enamored with the bright indigo fascade, our name on the letterbox and the beautiful Spielplatz (playground) directly across the road.
Hello to Steph.
ReplyDeleteI loved reading your story and especially looking at your pictures.
it is cold and wet here today.
school is the same the new boy is nice but we miss you
Molly