Gotz

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July

A few light showers of rain over night but nothing that cool things down to any great extent. This area we stopped in was close to the old centre of Brandenburg. The old 12th century church was dominating the street scape. 

Brandenberg 

A slower morning, a tidy-up and some shopping before we drove on to Gotz to meet Dania, Mirko, Nico and Anna. 

A lovely welcome from Dania - Mirko and Nico were caught in a traffic jam on the Berlin ring road after having practised for  motor- cross on the other side of Berlin. 

Beautiful cool zucchini soup for lunch - produce  from Dania's garden - before relaxing for the rest of the day. Too hot to do anything that looked like being strenuous!  

Sunday - lovely German breakfast - after which we took a drive and a walk to the Havel River bush land. 

Mein hosts - Dania and Mirko

An early walk was essential because the temperature was expected to climb well into the mid to late thirties today. 

Helene and Dania

Havel River - barge heading for Berlin

Dania and Anna made some delicious madgold (silver and red beet) and carrot fritters for lunch - very tasty. 

Lunch-time

Temperature still climbing - some had an afternoon nap!

A thunder storm was brewing but will it pass us by? The sky has darken significantly - will it break this hot spell - 36 so far today!

 A little bit of excitement late this afternoon when Germany won the Euro Soccer Women's Championship - even rockets!

Celebrations

Later we were driven to Werder for dinner at an Italian restaurant 'Pane e Vino'. Very nice - with lovely company.

Dinner at Werder

Still no rain but by about midnight the thunder storm hit - and rained through the night.