Tim Stubig parents called in, so we got to meet them. They also gave us presents - a board game for the family and some sweets for the children. I handed to the Franz family their Aussie gifts. For Hartwig some Aussie spices, for Katrina some T2 tea, a china mug with a koala on it and a indigenous design candle holder. For Judith and Henrike resin bracelets with Aussie flowers embedded - very pretty.
The young ones went upstairs to play skip-bo, while the adults stayed with tea and biscuits downstairs to talk. For dinner we had pasta, pork in cream sauce and salad. All delicious.
On Boxing Day we had planned to go to Hildesheim to the pools but many of us had colds and were not feeling very well. So instead we went for a walk through the forest near Jim’s house with the Franz family. At the end of the walk we stopped at a small pub hidden in the forest, and had some drinks.
In the evening we went to a Christmas service at Edith’s local church. It is a Lutheran church with a lovely organ. The service was in German but we were able to sing some of the songs in English as they were familiar Christmas songs.
We were really lucky after church to drop in and visit it Gisela. She is 92 and looks so youthful. For dinner it was just us with Edith and Jim for soup and meat/ cheese with bread. Delicious as always.
27th - We we’re lucky to have Tim and Henrike take us to Wolfsburg to Autostadt to go ice skating. We pond around the buildings has been frozen and smoothed out so that people can go skating. Peter and the boys loved it as after the ice skating they could walk through all the autostadt buildings to see all the amazing cars. Not quite my style.
After the skating (where Peter had a belly flop after showing off how well he could skate) we went to The Christmas market to grab a bite to eat.
28th - We went with Tim, Henrike and Judith to Brunsweig shopping to look for aa ski outfit for me. Most of the clothes were very expensive and I was despairing of finding something that was affordable and that would fit. Finally we went into Devathqlon and was able to get a jacket and pants, each for €79. After our shopping we headed back to Salzgitter-Bad to have dinner at Jim and Edith.Jim has a racelette cheese melted which is like a portable grill that melts this massive 2kg of cheese and then you scrape it off onto your meal. We had cooked potatoes and marinated vegetables. Such a filling meal but the novelty was interesting.
29th - we met with Tim’s parents this morning to take two cars to the Goslar metal mines. We hadn’t been before and found it very interesting. We travelled deep into the mine in our hard hats and was able to see how they mined hundreds of years ago. They have been mining here since the Bronze Age. Of course the technologies have improved and we were able to see the massive wheels ( up to 8.5m) that were turned by water and helped the miners raise the rock and metal from inside the mine. Peter and the men were so interested in the motors and engines.
After the tour we drove to Goslar which was swarming with people enjoying their holiday break. It was difficult to get a park, but after that we headed to the Christmas markets to grab late lunch. As we are leaving Germany tomorrow everyone was trying to get their last taste of German food. Peter and addi went for a swim, at the Salzgitter-Bad pool where the water is direct from the ground and because it is salt6 it is very healthy - maybe it will fix Peters ribs! For dinner we went to Jim with everyone for take away pizza and the kids all played the new game they got for Christmas. It is called Catan and is in German. I was able to find an English version on the internet for them to help play. They still managed to do really well and Addison ended up winning.
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