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Germany Part 3: The French Bit

Ok, ok, clearly the holiday has long been over and this is a voice from the past; I got distracted by brexit and coming back to work, that kind of thing!

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Germany Part Two: The Recovery

The second part of our German trip was designed to allow recovery from our earlier cycling exertions; an extra night in Koblenz, then three days in Heidelberg.

Obviously that’s nothing at all like what actually happened.

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Germany, Episode 1: Rheining, Weining and Dining

Erin told me I couldn’t mangle the spelling of dining to make it fit the Germanising of the other two words.
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Re-emerging from our Chrysales

(before anyone accuses me of not being able to spell, I do mean the plural of chrysalis; there are two of us you know!)

(I have been reliably informed that the plural of chrysalis is chrysalises…well, I’m leaving it as-is anyway!)

 

We’ve got a kitchen again.

Any by that I mean a relatively complete kitchen – not just an oven (as had been the case for a few weeks) but one with a hob and sinks (sinks! no wash-up in the bath any more!) as well. The luxury of it all!

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“Doctor Doctor”

“I’ve been afflicted by a dodgy builder, what would you prescribe?”

“Hmm, that does look serious, but I’ve got just the thing for you. Take three weeks of Phil, that’ll sort you out.”

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Getting on with things

Well, it’s been an eventful couple of weeks in the aftermath of the last post. It should be pretty clear on the graph where the last post sits!

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