Sunday May 27th 2018 - arrival in Gottingen

On Sunday May 27^th we got up early in Leuven, cleaned and tidied and set off shortly after 10am for Gottingen. The weather was very hot – 29 degrees. After a stop for petrol and breakfast and a short lunch stop we arrived at the home of Anne and Daniel Whybrew. Our instructions were to get a key either from house 6f or 6h. We found h first but the lady there told us she didn’t have a key. But she was able to point out our house 6c and 6f where we did get a key. We let ourselves in to a house with many floors. We loaded our luggage through the garden which has an entrance just across from where our parking place was. It was a lot easier than doing it through the front.The kitchen was on the same level as the hall door but is like a mezzanine to the living room, on garden level. Above the living room is a study and office and above the kitchen one flight up from the office is the main bedroom and bathroom. Above the office and one flight up from the main bedroom is another big bedroom. To the right of that is a bed sitting room and to the left a bed sitting room. Below the living room one flight down is a bed sitting room and beside that another shower room and one flight down from that is the laundry room and a store room. Beside the hall door is a toilet. Basically 7 floors! One of our first jobs was to get connected to the wifi – 50 figures to enter. Several mistakes were made but I finally got the laptop connected and my tablet. However, it has proven impossible to connect either of our mobiles. A lot of time was wasted and as a consequence we didn’t go in to Gottingen to look round as we had originally planned because the thunder had started and we were expecting heavy showers.

The people from Belgium had bought in some salad etc for us and had taken Anne’s casserole from the freezer so we had lots of food for that evening. There is a seated area in the garden which is partly covered and we sat out for our evening meal. It thundered and lighteninged and finally a most welcome heavy shower came. We sat on because of the cooler air. Then we watched the first episode of Game of Thrones and then went to bed.