Family Trip - Day 3

Thursday June 27

Corry loves swimming. It doesn’t matter whether air and water are hot or cold. She tries to go every day. The city Böhring has a place for families at a lake. They have lockers you can rent for the whole year and showers you can use after a lovely time in sun and water. You can bring your own picnic or enjoy something from the “rustic” restaurant. 

Unfortunately they had a lot of rain lately and some areas are rather flooded. 

We left the house about noon because we looked forward to lunch there. But first Corry did her swim with a friend we met there. 

They really like the new owner of the eating place. Weekly he is posting a menu of daily specials and this day it was “Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus”. I really liked the paper napkins he got made especially for his place.

After Corry's swimming (with some rain inbetween) and the lunch Werner continued to drive us to Radolfzell. It is one of the cities close by they know well. They decided parking in the parkhaus of the Kaufhall, a supermarket chain, because they could return their empty crate with water bottles. Germany is very back on recycling. A lot of bottles have a "Pfand" on it, a deposit you get back when you give the empty bottle back. Corry was putting the whole box with 12 into this machine and got a coupon with the amount which got deducted when she bought something.

I only went to Radolfzell ones when we were invited to friends house there. But I was surprised how nice this town was too.

It is situated at the edge of the Bodensee, which is a very large body of water. This allee of trees was very beautiful which the pictures do not show. The trees were majestic.

The water level is rather high. They had rather an awful lot of rain too lately and even floods. When I saw this I had to take a photo.

I had spied this sign right away. "Selbstbedienung" means self-service. I rather think that nobody wants to sit on those chairs at the moment and swim through the tables balancing their tray.

We sat a while at the edge of the lake. People watching and enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. 

This picture of course was taken by Corry and shared with me.

A little shopping where the car was parked (which is free when you get the parket ticket stamped when you buy something) and then it was time to go back home. Florian (their son) was cooking tonight and we ate dinner outside on the terrace. 

I was terrible today taking photos. Didn't take any photos of the dinner event or the lovely terrace but I did take some of the lovely photos. 

This yellow one was identified by my phone as "Evening Primrose" or "in the family of Onagraceae". After finding the first one somewhere to bring home they are self-seeded in his garden. They are about waist-high and live about 2 or 3 years. The strange thing is that the flowers open in the evening for several days but close in the mornings again. I don't have a day-time-bush photo.

But I took this photo before I went to bed. Just lovely.

Another lovely day with a lovely evening. Oh, how lucky we are.