For the past couple of days we've mostly been staying home and spending time with family. I am working on the beading on some of my tapestries. They don't use the car at all here. We walk everywhere or take the tram. Yesterday we were out walking and stopped in at a hole-in-the-wall sweet shop where they served me this lovely ice cream.

We picked Pau up at school. They'd been on a little field trip and arrived back at the school where we were waiting. They really do walk in two lines, just like in Madeleine.

Today we took the tram over to Germany. It's just on the other side of the river. It amazes me that you move a few hundred yards, and suddenly everything is different. Gone were the quaint old buildings. Gone the attention to preservation. Apparently there was hardly a building standing in Germany after the war, so everything there has been built in the last 70 years.

And yet another language. This is how they mark no parking zones. 

We bought a sandwich and found a nice park. There are inviting public spaces everywhere here wherever we've been, and we have taken advantage of them.

We have the weekend to go, and then we'll head for home. I think it's perfect timing.