I slept like a log again and for 8 3/4 hours. Seems that is the amount of sleep I need. Which totally agrees with the nine hours I always needed before I had a kid. Now I just have to completely rearrange my life to include a 9-hour window for sleep every day. Easy.
We got up late, had a leisurely breakfast (yogurt, banana and pear for me, yum) and then started talking about some of the things that drive us both crazy in our marriage, so that was fun. On the other hand, not talking about those things is not the solution either.
By 12.30 we were ready to go out to find something to eat, look at some intarsia in a church and walk around some more. I taped my feet for the first time in months and felt instantly better, duh. The weather had cleared up and we almost did not take any rain gear.
We found a nice place right around the corner from where we‘re staying, ordered pizza and a beer each and then there was dramatic thunder and all the water fell from the sky. For the next two hours or so.
We took our time eating but couldn‘t really talk with each other because everybody around us was talking about twice as loud as we‘re used to. Germans are relatively quiet compared with people in other countries and that means every conversation we‘re trying to have is drowned out by the ones next to us. And yes, we should just talk louder but it feels like trying to have a conversation in a dance club.
The food was good if a little too much. First there was some free food:
And then some pizza:
We waited a bit and then walked back to our apartment because the rain was going on and on.
A couple of hours later we had changed our plan, walked out where it was still raining but at that stage where one is never quite sure if the umbrella should stay open or close. We went to the supermarket again for salad, bread and tissues, walked around the block a bit and saw a couple of landmarks and were back home after half an hour or so.
There was salad for dinner because we hadn‘t eaten a single vegetable in days:
Not pictured is the goat cheese and salami, very yummy. Then to stay on the topic of food we watched another episode of the Samin Nosrat documentary after my husband did the dishes. There is no dish towel in the apartment, so we‘re using one of our travel towels. Oh and no pot holders so we used one of the hand towels provided by our hosts.
Then I watched an episode of C-drama, started writing this post, did a short round of Duolingo and went to bed.
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