WINSEN CHURCH AND MUDEN CAFE
It was a full day beginning with a delicious German breakfast of softboiled egg and good bread with all kinds of spreads: honey, jam, liverwurst, sauermeat in gel, cheese and wurst.
Then we all three went to church in the beautiful old church, last renovated in the 1800‘s, but much older than that. The Protestant service is much different from the service at the Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church with the audience knowing just what to do. The hymn tunes were also different. All I could do was follow along sort of understanding but often not. It was communion Sunday and while the Warren Wilson church has real bread and grape juice, the Winsen church has a flat wafer and real wine with each person having a personal ceramic wine cup.
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After the service was an exchange of plants in front of Nebenan Cafe. Then we went back to Heinrich and Elke‘s house and ate yesterday‘s leftover Eisbein from Schweine Schulze.
At 1 p.m. we drove through the towns of Belsen and Bergen (where Kathe lived as a little girl), past the gate to the Bergen Belsen death camp where Anne Frank died, to Muden and a beautiful cafe built into an old fachwerk barn, beautifully decorated inside with comfortable sofas and chairs around tables where we met two daughters of Hinnerk, Kathe‘s brother: Henny, who lives in Haarlem, Netherlands and Maria, the actor and film director who lives in Berlin and had a very pleasant hour and a half with Heinrich, who was the same age as Hinnerk in school, telling stories about their father. It was very good to see them and to remember old times.
Then, the two sisters drove on and after what for us old folks was a very long day, we drove back to Winsen and Heinrich and Elke instructed me on how to get around in Sylt, where I am going on Monday and we tumbled into bed early without playing Rummikub.
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