In the afternoon Lara and I were picked up and chauffeured away to the house of a great aunt (the wife of our grandmother’s half-brother) in Neuendettelsau. This was a wonderful afternoon, sitting around the table with this 93 year old lady (still old-school but cheeky) telling us to eat and eat, and three of her children, and two of her grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Four generations around one big table out on the back patio, it was really nice.
Later in the afternoon some of us (including our great aunt) went for a walk through the town (though they call it a large village only). We stopped and saw the place where our grandmother as a child was kept during the war, a children’s home where she looked after two younger siblings while their parents were interned in Australia (having been taken from Papua New Guinea where they were missionaries). We also wandered around some more, seeing some mission houses and the missionary training centre and such. It was quite a decent walk for a nonagenarian, but she did just fine and quite enjoyed it I think.
For dinner the five of us that remained enjoyed mackerel and salad. I go through a whole fish and it was really quite nice, especially with a dollop of creamed horse radish.

It was such a marvellous time with these people. I’m glad we were able to visit our aunt (who apologised that her husband was no longer with us), and also felt special to be a part of the family gathering.

Today we see Nuremberg.

Residence of our family friends,
Heilsbronn, Germany