May day came to find me sitting on a train racing to Stuttgart, I was excited because I haven't seen my brother for nigh on 8 years, and have never met his family. That was a few days ago, and it's been such a joy, I have loved every minute, playing games with my four year old niece and Daniella and her triplets, they're all so lovely to me, I'm so happy I was given the chance to catch up with them finally.
The funniest thing about my niece is that she has refused point blank to speak any English to me, she understands everything that was said to her, and she was so lovely in showing me how to play games on the wii, what to do, where to put things, so sweet, but she and I had very surreal conversations in Anglo-German, she spoke German, I responded in English. Funny thing is, I understood what she was saying (in the main) so I could reply to her in English - must have sounded so strange to the outside world, but it was a lark, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I shall miss her especially. Although all. the children were lovely, and I would dearly love to show them England. The two older girls kept saying they wanted to speak English like me - which was very sweet :)
Of course, I've been keeping myself occupied whilst I've been here, I went for a walk yesterday and explored Mockmul, an amazingly beautiful medieval town I've been uploading photos ever since, it's quite time consuming, but I hope, the people who get to see them get some kind of enjoyment from them.
Moeckmul is a small but heavily guarded town, with a beautiful (still inhabited) castle. The story goes that there was a young noble lady - Mechita - who owned a mill at a time when the town was under siege from some marauding rebels, when she came across the idea to place the chickens all along the wall, she set the sails going round in her mill, and fooled the rebels into thinking the town had too much to eat and that it would be hard work trying to siege them out.
In the center of the town there is a modern (albeit a bit strange looking) statue of Mechita sitting on the edge of a pool with a fountain. While I was there, she was next to the Maypole. The town also houses another strange statue - just outside the church, of a mother dragging a child holding a puppet (presumably ) to church, interesting idea, but again, not a particularly flattering statue.
Apart from the two modernish statues, the town is very medieval looking, with many half wood buildings (if it were England, I'd say Tudor, but I don't know what the equivilent is in Germany) it's placed on a hill with a fantastic castle on the top - I hope to get a photo of the town from the other hill after seeing the castle in it's glory yesterday. However, the castle is being lived in and therefore still a private residence, so I couldn't actually go around it. The best I could manage was to photograph from around the castle walls.
I found a fantastic little wool shop - oh! so many different ideas, I love traveling and seeing the different crafts people do, I ended up having a surreal conversation with the owner about knitting with ribbon (which, of course, I HAD to try out!) so I had a very quick lesson in ribbon knitting - in German, so of course, I actually didn't understand a word, however, I have given it a go and have managed to figure out how to make a scarf with ribbon.
Absolutely delighted with the end result, and have given it to one of the triplets :p I'm now having to make another one for the second triplet girl :) and then a third for my page on FB - I like to keep myself busy - you know what they say about idle hands.
Today started misty and pretty grotty, but now, at mid day - the sun is out and it's absolutely gorgeous - just waiting for my brother to finish whatever it is he's doing on his computer, to take me on a promised sight seeing tour. Can't wait, been charging my phone for the last 4 hours in anticipation.
The sight seeing tour was lovely - first of all we went to Jagsthausen a castle that has been turned into a hotel, but also had a theatre in it - which held regular performances. Then we went onto a Monastery nearby that was absolutely gorgeous.
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