A Quiet Weekend in a Little German Village

Well its been a really lazy weekend! And we are very sorry to hear that Manly lost the grand final. Levi looked so adorable all decked out in his team gear! How could they let their newest little fan down!

Anyhow we have walked and driven around our little community here, seen bambi and enjoyed an authentic German town. This is Bad Berneck...

Here we are at our 'local' enjoying a coffee and strudel. You have to really time your caffeine cravings carefully as this is the only cafe/restaurant we have found in town and its open 11:30am - 2pm then 5:30pm till late. I miss my morning Whitehorse!

This morning Karl preached at a church in a town called Hof about 40km away. The couple who own the apartment we are staying in have a connection with the church pastors who live just a few doors away from us. It was an incredibly friendly, lovely Christian community. This is Erika translating into German sentence by sentence. For once in our lives, everyone spells our surname correctly, although they do put a bit more of a German pronunciation on it….ie Faaarrrsa. They had a real laugh about the fact that Karl Faase, who sounds like he's German, is Australian and can't speak a word of German!

We leave tomorrow for 3 days to visit Berlin and on the way call in to Lutherstadt Wittenberg where Martin Luther's home and church are. Both should be really fascinating and I'm now thinking I should have asked Marc Rader a bit more about that part of church history before leaving home!