Tuesday is, at least during the summer, the day when life is easy and uncomplicated in Garding. Although the “Bratwurstmobil” advertises “Pommes, Bratwurst & mehr”, the “mehr” is not that much more. In fact, it’s just “Currywurst”. Drinks? It’s beer. Or “Alsterwasser”. Which is beer with a dash of lemonade. Simple. Not complicated.
We introduced some complications today by getting Crêpes. With Nutella. But even with that complication, life and dinner remained straight forward.
Pretty good music tonight. We always go and stay at the same stage, one of at least four stages filling the ‘city centre’ of Germany’s second smallest city.
For Pádraig the evening was like a, admittedly not very sophisticated, music therapy session, He tapped with his feet, he moved his fingers and his hands to the rhythm of the music, tonight supplied by a band from Canada, they said. But then, it turned out they all spoke German and at the end of the evening, I think it was more a matter of some of the members having been in Canada. Once.
I love the mix of people filling the streets of Garding on Tuesday summer nights. There are hippies from the 60s, Wacken veterans, families with small kids, families with adult kids, lone alcoholics, beauty kings and queens, weather-torn people from the North, beautiful people.
It was a great night out. For all of us.
Hospi-Tales 
Hi Reinhard
Lovely to read about what’s going on in Northern Germany and how you are all getting on over there. Enjoy the warm evenings. More “normal” Irish summer weather has returned over here, but we have been so lucky with the abundant sunshine for so long that no- one can complain! Great to know that your time there in terms of the Physiotherapy and other excellent support on offer and other is so helpful to Padraig’s progress.
Raphael:)
Thank you for your kind words, Raphael! – The last weeks have been exciting, exhausting, and full of experiments and learning. We’ll be on our way back to Dublin soon. But not back to ‘normal’:) — Hope you’re keeping well!