Departing Vienna arriving back to Kaiserslautern (28 - 29 June)

10-hour train ride from Wien via Salzburg, Munich, Ulm, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Mannheim. Glad to be back to dear Dutch friends Roy and Jeannette's home away from home. Their efficient green home with 5,000 litre underground water cistern to catch rain water. Herbs and vegetables growing in back yard. Humongous goldfish in water refuge with a big blue heron who would love to catch one every morning. Wendy ate the most delicious rhubarb pie ever and is cured of her ages old dislike for rhubarb! Emily is now helpingJeannette appilque real bamboo from their garden onto a bedroom wall.

Time to 'get out of Dodge' (Vienna). Wien train station was crazy with inbound travelers to see the European Cup 2008 finals the next day between Germany and Spain. Viennese merchants like the high spending Germans and Russians, butapparently not the skinflint Spaniards!