Hi, its Tom again.

One week ago today we arrived in our new home on Fehmarn. It has been a week of get togethers, breakfast and dinners with the family and a birthday party in Hamburg.The beach is maybe 5 minutes away and our trailer, being at the end of a side street sees very little traffic; the only thing that we hear mostly are the birds.

Life here is a lot slower and its hard to keep track of the days and the time. I think I have my "land legs" back as I stopped feeling wobbly yesterday. When the wind blows from the West we can hear the train crossing the Fehmarn Bridge. The pigeons are the size of chickens and at dusk until morning there are rabbits all over. (No jackalopes yet) We went to our first Town Fest (Rapsblutenfest) yesterday in Petersdorf; a small town circle fest with food booths, candy, locally made goods, delicious German cakes and some sort of marinated hering on bread. We also had dinner at the Globetrotter restaurant on the campground both yesterday and the day before. Thursday I had liver and onions and yesterday I had Neck Steak.....delicious.

The neighbors are all friendly and everyone says "good morning" or "good day" as you pass. There is a small store by the registration building that sells fresh rolls in the morning and they ARE delicious with butter and cheese or just with butter.

We attended a birthday party yesterday in Hamburg for an old friend of Dagmars, which was very nice with quite a few people. It is interesting to listen to the many conversations and I am picking up more and more words and phrases as the conversations go on. The drive back was quite fast with speeds, outside of city limits, reaching roughly 136 mph. (210 kph) Normal driving speed is around 96 mph. Just what the Autobahn is made for.

I changed a lot of this post because I realized that is sounded very negative but I didn't mean it to, so this is the updated version.