We survived the 30 hours or so of travelling to Hamburg - the flights were pretty good and the train trip offered lovely views of a very green Germany. Amazing to think that in four hours on the train we had covered much of the length of Germany, where in Australia we'd just have crossed Victoria...
Julia picked us up from the station and drove us to her home. At one point on the freeway we got to 180 km an hour!! All I could think was, 'I wish my 18 yr old son was here - he would be green with envy!' Emma and Lesley, sitting in the back, loved it.
Julia lives in one of ten houses on land that was farmland for 100 or so years. She is surrounded by fairly traditional German houses (red brick A-frame roofed with those gorgeous attic windows and window boxes with flowers), but her place is quite different - it's architect-designed (she was the architect), bright and sunny inside with lots of pine. Yesterday at about 5.30 pm I had a bath and found myself gazing at a blue cloudy sky through the attic-style window that was cut into a ceiling painted as a blue cloudy sky. So real and painted merged together. It was lovely. Crashed into bed early and rose to a lovely long brunch (fruit, home-baked spelt rolls, home-made jams, cheeses, chocolate-hazelnut spread, yoghurt... and some of last-night's mushroom and rice dinner that I was too jet-lagged to eat...)
We've chatted about differences between Germany and Australia, about education, about their lifestyle... Now we're heading out for another walk along the lane ways and by the river. Her son Janus is on the trampoline outside with his friends. Their puppy is watching 'Dog TV' (= the rabbits in their hutch on the grass). Later we're going to video some interviews of us for when she launches The Mastery Club in German/y.
More later!
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