Archive for July 13th, 2011

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In our post on Strasbourg I mentioned that we had bought some fancy cheese to have for dinner one night.  This turned out to be a giant stroke of luck since on our way to find some bread for the cheese we happened to walk right past a shop with little bits of fabric in the window!  We took a look and the designs in this shop were really awesome.  There were many of the fabrics which I would have liked to take and include!  However, we wanted one that was at least plausibly French and there was a clear winner:

France Fabric

This may be one of my favorite bits collected so far.  I absolutely love the colors, the daisy pattern reminds me of a different Daisy, and every time I look at it I will get to think about delicious cheese!

We ended up having a whirlwind tour of Germany – only 2 nights were planned for the country and we wanted to meet up with two different sets of people – my cousin Jeremy, his wife Sarah and child Liam (which I learned is my 1st cousin once removed) and our friends Andre and Amy whom we met in New Zealand on a boat!

Of course we couldn’t go to Germany without tasting some German wine.   So we got out our train map and looked up the wine regions in Germany, trying to come up with a route which would take us to my cousin’s house.  We came up with a train to Cochem (via Luxembourg… again…) which would allow us 4 hours in Cochem to tour and taste and still get us to Cologne early enough for Jer and Sarah to still be awake.

Cochem Castle

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