Fun in Freiburg

We love Freiburg - fab city. After getting a bit lost we met our friends Ulli and Rita in town - they had told us the name of a statue in the centre to meet at, but we thought it was the name of a bar and had written it down wrong anyway - the tourist information centre couldn't even help but we found the girls in the end!  They took us to a typical German beer garden high up in the city with great views - everywhere we went we were introduced as Die Englanderrs - we felt like celebrities as everyone wanted to try out their English on us - this happened for the next 4 days as Ulli and Rita put up with us for that long!!

Prost!

View from the beer garden

Right Said Fred

Does anyone know what happened to the group 'Right Said Fred'?! We do - they are in Freiburg on a Tuesday night - went to see a group with the girls and one of their friends is exactly like him - we had to show them on the internet and they believed us! But he'd broken his leg for this performance and couldn't strut his stuff 'on the catwalk' but he was 'so sexy for his cat'!! Older UK readers of the blog will understand this!!

Right Said Fred is sitting down with his leg in plaster

video of the group doing it 'Their Way!' Most of the songs were in English

Girls on a night out!

While we were in Freiburg the new future King was born - They asked us what the new Prince was going to be called - guess what D said - King Dave of course!!  Some believed him for a while......

Here's a few pics and a video of Freiburg - if you are in the Black Forest make sure you visit

Cathedral

There's a market every day by the cathedral with lovely flower stalls and loads of sausage stalls - brought back memories of the nudist beach!! we did like the Currywurst - sausage and curry sauce.  Ulli also made us a local dish called Wurstsalat - mixture of special ham, cheese, gherkins and oil - it was lush.

Smells of flowers and sausage!!

Dave on the Balcony before a fab BBQ evening

Speaking German

Ulli and Rita and her German friends found the following link very funny - you may have to be a Facebook user to see it - it shows how harsh the German language sounds compared to other European countries we have been in - we had great fun with the girls about this.

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Freiburg Kurry Haus

We had the best curry ever at the local Kurry Haus - a real treat after all the sausage we've had!!

Dave missing his English food! This was just the starters - the mains were as good - YUM!

Dave enjoys his ice cream again in an 'ice cream' cafe that did loads of different ice creams

Spaghetti Ice Cream!

Ausfahrt!

Driving through Germany on the autobahns we kept seeing signs for Ausfahrt and thought that must be a very big town as it seemed to have loads of roads leading to it.  After about 30 miles we realised it's the German for Exit......doh!!

Pool just for Women

The weather was boiling during our stay in Freiburg and one afternoon we headed for the local pool - met Ulli there who took Mogs in the women's only pool - the only one in Germany I think she said.  Never been in a pool with so many women - it was strange but cool - Dave would have loved it but he wasn't allowed in!!

Everyone rides by bike in Freiburg - had to keep your wits about you and avoid the trams - we felt like proper locals bombing round the city on our bikes with Rita who knew all the shortcuts!

Bikes everywhere

Medieval town Schafen

Trip during our stay to a nearby really pretty medieval town called Schafen

Schafen

Had a great swim one day in a local lake with Ulli and had a lovely time for the whole of our stay with them.  Dave did a bit of leccy work in their house - may get him back in work mode for our return to the UK! He also gave a stunning performance of the German song he'd learnt on the guitar with Mogs singing along in her best German accent and we also did an English version of the song that the girls loved.  I'm afraid the video won't load - well that's what Dave says!!

Little Woodstock

On our final night in Freiburg we went to a Little Woodstock hippy festival in a field on the outskirts of town - what a night!!

Arrived at the field - vans and tents everywhere parked up for the night but managed to squeeze Vannie into a spot - youngsters were all very impressed with our rum optic in the van! Dave started inviting them all back for a party later on - is that a good idea?!

Video when we arrived:

It was all free and very well set up with drinks, veggy food (not free but cheap!), groups playing, kids games, great lighting when it got dark - all ages were there - granny too with her own joint!

There were lights in the trees made from recycled plastic bottles - all very 'save the planet!' Looked stunning

Video during the evening:

It was all getting very hot and steamy with weed and beer flowing then the heavens opened up and we had a lightening show and torrential downpour! Everyone rushed to the tents but Dave and Ulli dived under a table!!  Funny!  It was a good night despite the rain and we staggered back to the van at some point.....

Dave and Ulli keeping outa the rain!

The morning after it was time to move on - we loved our stay in Freiburg - thanks girls!