One of today's newspaper story's in Germany features what looks a bit like
John Cleese doing his ministry of silly walks
This was the third morning in a row I have been up and
putting the kettle on at something not long after 4 am. Today it was the get on
the road early to be at the tunnel before the traffic had built up too badly.
We are on our way to Reifnitz in Austria
We have lots of pretty places that are known to us because
of our peripatetic lifestyle and our overnight stop for today is the Hotel
Sternen Höfgut, a little way along the road outside of Freiburg .
We like the restaurant and it also has a cuckoo clock makers and a glass
blowing shop and a huge shop that only sells German souvenir goods. It is quite
charming.
We don’t have an early start planned for tomorrow but I will
still wake up early just because I do. We will be finishing the last five hours
of our Audible choice for this journey which is Stephen King’s third book in
the Mr. Mercedes trilogy. We have hardly spoken a word to each other for the
eight hour drive. Spellbound. It is so gripping and we both love having a
series of stories where you get to know all the characters. I highly recommend
these three truly engrossing books. And a note for the people who S.K. makes a
little bit nervous, I can add that it is not a horror story but is a retired
cop relentlessly getting to the bottom a hairy story but not a scary story. He
is after the crazy crowd killer from the first book. Presented are a group of
images that are just police detectives, computer geeks, students and a
sprinkling of more unusual people. The second book did not get into anything
weird until right at the end but this one gets more and more off the beaten
track, without giving much away. I am one of the people that S.K. refers to as
his constant readers. There is some content that needs a little mental openess
but not totally horrid things. He is such an entertaining writer and has a incredible turn of phrase. It features Will
Patterson reading this story, who has such a huge selection of wonderful voices,
even his women’s voices are brilliant. Great reader.
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