Mini meeting in Augsburg/Bavaria/Germany

When CJ (Calamity Jane) announced that she would visit here native country, we arranged a meeting in Augsburg (where her parents live now).

We: that was only urs53 and myself.

I drove down to Augsburg (about 560 km/360 miles) on Friday (with an average speed of 128km/h = 80 miles per hour; it was some heavy traffic).

My hotel was in the old town center (and it was urs' as well, as we later found out).

On Saturday morning, I did what I usually do when being at an unknown place (and I'd never been to Augsburg before): I mad a non-planned walk around the town, however, with a (printed) town guide.

Shortly before 2 o'clock, urs and her friend Tanja arrived, seconds later CJ.

We had a nice lunch (actually only urs and Tanja :wink: ), and talked about this and that.
It was rather warm, nut the sun came only out after we all had met!

After some time, we walked to the "Fuggerei", which are the oldest public welfare houses in Europe. It was built by the Fugger family [actually by Jacob Fugger the Rich], a very wealthy merchant family of Augsburg, between 1514 and 1523.

But you read more about it here on the BBC
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After having visited this really very interesting place (and we got a good, short introduction of this "town in the town" by lady at the museum's cashier, who lives there with her husband), we walked through some different parts of the old town towards an ancient hospital, which now is partly a housing for elderly people and partly a museum (and theater) for ... marionettes.

Again, the BBC kindly has helped me and published this short article online.

Again, we passed parts of the old town and had then some cold drinks on the biggest open place in Augsburg, just meters away from our hotel.

We met met there by some of Tanja's friend (one couple being from Augsburg, the other from Munich. [Tanja's husband arrived later.]

We had reserved a table in a nearby restaurant for that night.
CJ.
While CJ went back home until then, some went shopping, others had rest or photographed (the photos will be shown later - on Thursday, I think - when the films are developed).

Shortly before we met in the restaurant, urs a got a call by CL that she unfortunately couldn't come because some relatives had arrived at her parents home, who wanted to meet her.
She wanted to try to leave in time to meet us, but ...

(And since she meets today, Sunday, more relatives in Munich, we didn't meet her in person anymore.)

So, the others had a nice meal (although in a bit loud place). Afterwards, we went around the town, so this and that .... it was the "night of culture", and a lot was going on, several cultural and not so cultural were opened during the night.

I left the hotel early this morning, the others ha breakfast (much later, I suppose :wink: ) at Tanja's friend home.

My breaks on the way back where at some interesting (touristy ) places, where I didn't have just my coffee but also took some photos.


So, this really was a rather small and short meeting - but nevertheless a very pleasant one, in a nice place and with even nicer people.