The weather here has been insane. From what I understand, the last time it was this hot was in 2004, I think. all stores have sold out of fans... this southerner was smart enough to get one the first hot day we had, so we are all set. On the close to 100° that fan doesn't do much good in the city of no breezes, so we have tried to go to places with A/C. That leaves one place in Wolfsburg - The Autostadt.
On Sunday I packed a healthy lunch for everyone and we headed to the Autostadt.
Valeria in the background with a healthy lunch - roasted turkey breast (real, not lunchmeat) with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers on crispbread (gf and 0 points for 2 pieces!), carrot sticks with homemade SFT hummus and an apple.
We spent a good bit of time there, looking at cars, watching movies and playing with ducks.
This little guy saw that we were eating and decided he wanted some. He cam so close I could have reached out and touched him.
The best part was the 1 hour boat ride down the canal. The woman giving the tour was our tour guide when we took the English language tour, so she came over and told us everything that she had just said. One of the towns we passed was home to a famous children's song composer, and she got the boat to sing on of his songs for us!
More Autostadt pictures here.
Monday, we went to Braunschweig, where I am almost ashamed to say I ate 1 3/4 gluten free pizzas. Before we found this place (it was our second visit) I hadn't had good pizza since going gluten free, so I am ok with it.
On Tuesday we went to Wolfsburg Castle, which is now an art museum.
The stables have been turned in to a museum of Wolfsburg and VW history, too.
The best part was either the toilet that is literally a box built over a hole in the ground
Or the 1950s hair salon that was actually used in a salon in Wolfsburg until 1999.
More Wolfsburg Castle pictures here.
On Wednesday we went to Uelzen, where they have a really cool train station designed by a famous artist. Hundertwasser Bahnhof and of course, a castle.
The castle was ok, but they had a special exhibit about how they handled the influx of people who moved to Uelzen after WW2. Apparently they had a solid infrastructure so it was a very popular destination. The coolest thing about the whole exhibit was seeing the care package that said "Donated By The People of The United states of America"
and seeing the 4 square meters that each adult was given to live in.
More Uelzen pictures here.
For some reason we are all really tired, so for today we are taking it easy. We are headed back to Braunschweig to drop Christian's iPod touch off to be repaired, cleaning up and getting ready for our guest that will be here tomorrow, and will take our nightly walk or bike ride.
Have a great day, everyone!
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