If either Jackie or I have borrowed your nice mittens and you need to know were they are you can contact Jackie's phone on this number: +49 1745799671. I at last got to revisit my German home in Brunswick where we were spoiled by Joachim and Marianne's care as we wer e well fed and shown around. We saw Hildesheim's Egyptian museum and some local prehistoric tombs. We saw Königslutter featuring an old Linden tree and and old church and Goslar and the nearby Rammelsberg historic mine. Berlin had stacks of Museums and Rügen showed us how the East Germans Holiday. On we went to Hamburg to witness the Christening of Nils Goroll and Kristina Goroll's (nee Palmowski) first born Jim who is three but light enough to be handily held aloft for the Christening. Jackie and I excelled in singing "Er hält die ganze Welt in seiner Hand" Today we went with Kristina and the kids (Jim and Theo) on a Hafen Rundfahrt to see the gigantic docks area and afterwards rode Nils' and Kristina's tandem bike to town via the very pretty "Alster": local wide river sections I think with lots of little salboats on them. Jackie was terrified and guess who was steering. We saw the big Hamburg Rathaus (Town Hall) and some pretty waterways and the old Speicherstadt warehouse area. As for the title of the post, if you are keen on say, fruit in Australia we might say you are a fruit lover or a fruit maniac or a fruit-oholic but in Germany you are its friend so you would be a Früchte Freund. And Quark is like smooth cottage cheese but milder. Do they ever have big dairy sections here.