After Nieder-Olm we took the train to Freiburg to stay a week with Richard's parents. We had a lot of fun walking around Freiburg, eating Richard's mom's great German food, and seeing sister Sophie and some of Richard's high school friends. We visited the Christmas markets everyday for our fill of Gluehwein, and Richard finally had his fix of proper German sausages.
We celebrated with a typical German Christmas eve meal of beet soup with pierogi, carp, dumplings, sauerkraut and poppyseed cake. For Christmas dinner we had Sauerbraten (beef roast marinated in vinegar), Rouladen (beef rolls filled with bacon, pickles and mustard), turkey stuffed with chestnuts, dumplings, sauerkraut and sand cake. All of our meals were tasty, served in copious amounts and always followed up with the comment, "but you haven't eaten very much yet" regardless of how much you've eaten.
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| finally |
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| Gluehwein at the Freiburg Christmas market |
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| View of Freiburg from the Schlossberg |
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| Albert and Richard |
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| Sofie, Richard, Tony and Albert |
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| Richard, Mops and Sofie drinking Gluehwein |
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| Dampfnudel and sauerkraut at the Christmas market |
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| Fondue and schnapps |
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| Richard and Sofie |
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| Christmas eve dinner: Richard, Kelsey, Kasimir, Sofie and Mops |
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| Evening view from the Piech house |
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| Waldsee |
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| Waiting for the train on our way to Italy |
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