The England Contingent – Day 2

Traffic going into Mannheim is still crazy. After all, why not dig up a major intersection between 0900-1500?

After picking up the guys, we drove over to the Mannheim Art Museum Since we were a few minutes early, we had a chance to walk around the garden and fountain in the center next to the Water Tower (follow this link – then hit the English language button on the top menu if you would like to see a picture.)

Starting the first floor, once the museum opened, we wandered all the floors (and got up and down via the huge freight elevator). The majority of art is modern. Some of it was interesting, much of it left all of us shaking our heads. But the café in front served an excellent lunch.

From there, we traveled over to Worms. It is a great medieval city, much of the wall is intact. Rather than follow a really set agenda, we wandered several parts of the town. There is a wonderful small hat shop, a great pedestrian zone and a real problem finding parking. We didn’t get to the old Jewish Quarter on this trip. But there was yarn to be seen and coffee to be bought.

I dropped them back in Mannheim in time for me to feed the family prior to services.

Arches

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California – not China.

Shabbat Shalom.

-Holly

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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