july 29

July 29th (cool and rainy)
This morning, after breakfast, we walked behind Rudolf and Irmgard’s home to a pottery exhibition. The quality was exceptional and it was too bad that the weather was not cooperating in order for the day to be more successful for the artists. We returned home and left Irmgard to be alone as she wanted to get a few chores done and make us a delicious lunch for when we returned from our drive to various places of interest to Rudolf.
He was born in Elmshorn and his father was a policeman after serving in the war. Rudolf was able to show us his school, where he played as a boy and where he worked while putting himself through university. He must have been an excellent teacher. He has a real gift with words and is very informative about so many subjects. He speaks very good English considering he had not spoken it since the last time we were here. With my broken German and Irmgard’s command of English, we manage to figure things out as well.
The weather was not very pleasant again so it was best that we drove around most of the day enjoying the beautiful countryside and some of the smaller towns in the area around Uetersen. Irmgard stayed home today and greeted us with a delicious dinner consisting of eggs and shrimp. We enjoyed watching 8 mm films of their 1968 trip to Cinq a Terra and old films of the family.