I promised myself a German tour before the end of the summer. Before returning home. Home. Connecting with previous lives. Saying good-bye to it. Not forever, maybe, but for the foreseeable future, most likely.
Today it was Cologne, the first ‘stop’ and just for a few hours, between the time my train arrived and the time the only affordable Ryanair flight out of Germany to Dublin today was going to leave. You could be in different minds, I guess, about whether doing something like this makes sense at all. Sometimes we all do things that don’t make sense. But feel good and feel right.
Back in Cologne, for a few hours, I went back almost 35 years in my life. Studying. Kinda. Without a bother in the world. Carefree.
Just arrived back home. Earlier than I’d thought because I got a really nice surprise lift from one of our daughters. Almost couldn’t get into the house because of all the blocks waiting to become the walls of Pádraig’s new rooms. So great to see them!
On the plane I talked to a German woman who is coming over to Ireland for a week’s holidays. She is a Biodancer instructor. She told me about her work and the effects of biodancing, how biodancing can be used to express yourself, to communicate, to experience others in dancing. She said that physical contact, touch, is so important for our well-being.
Whether you believe in coincidences or not, I think there was a very valuable lesson here for Pádraig and for us when caring for Pádraig. The important of touch and physical contact for his physical and mental well-being.
When I left this morning, Pádraig had just woken up and was getting ready for the day. He had a good day, with his usual meals and the walk in the park. There is almost a sense of routine, or normality.
Today’s German Music Tip
GENETIKK, Wünsch dir was. Das Leben ist kein Wunschkonzert. Du musst dran glauben und dann erfüllt sich was. Super Rap on a Mission.
What’s hot
Timetravel
What’s cold
Being stuck in time
The German word/phrase/verse of the day
Hasse keinen Frisör deme das erzählen kann?
An Saol Live your Life , An Saol eile
Hospi-Tales 
Reinhard, just caught up with all your news – had taken a break from all technology (wasn’t as bad as I had expected)!!! Be sure and give Pádraig a barróg, and tell him that I think of him often. Onwards and upwards . . . Grá, Siobhán x
How did you survive without the internet, Siobhán??? – I’ll give Pádraig that barróg and will tell him that you are thinking of him often. Soon, he’ll be back. Hurray!
When Heinz and I had coffee in Colunga, Asturias, yesterday, we happened to sit next to quite a few young people at the “bar” walking the “camino”, one of them really fed up. It came to my mind, what if we met Maria walking there? Well, she must be somewhere else I am sure. But nevertheless, we just had to think of your whole family.
Wouldn’t that be incredible, Gisela? Maria would be the one with the big smile on her face and a knee support! – Enjoy Asturias! Wish we were all there for a break:)