Somewhere in Germany

Simon had 3 days off during the second week of the Morcheeba tour, so we had some relaxed time to spend together. Jolene, one of Simon's managers, has family from Germany and her aunt offered us use of her apartment (she lives in California) in a small town called Weingarten (Baden) with a population of 10,000.

It's a really charming little town and we had a lovely few days.





Sunrise view from the apartment.



This area of Southern Germany is heavily industrial.



We drove to the top of the hill in town. I thought it was a bit of an odd configuration with the top of the hill devoted to fields of corn and grapes and the town situated down in the valley.



Pretty countryside.





Grapes from the local vineyard.



My boys in town.





Some friends coming to visit Django.



An odd creature that I guessed to be a muskrat, but I believe now to be a Nutria. There was only one of these, but numerous rats living along the rivers edge.



Charming German architecture.









There are two very large churches in town built right next to each other.









We came across a couple really cool old tractors. Django was rather excited.





A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

We met a woman by the river in town who spoke some English and we had a friendly conversation with her. Upon departing company, I asked where in town we could buy a bottle of wine. It was Sunday and many stores were closed. She didn't think there was anywhere to get wine. "Where are you staying?" she asked. We told her, and she said she would bring us a bottle of the local wine. "What time do you want it?". "Ummmm, six o'clock.. thank you!" She drove by and delivered a 1 liter bottle of local wine.



It was quite nice and we enjoyed it. Such a random bit of kindness was very heartwarming.



After our three day break was over, we got on the road again, heading to Zurich for Simon's next performance.