Thursday 11th to Monday 15th May 2023.
Each year we attempt to visit our friends Arzu andWolfgang, along with their daughter Bedia and cat Yufka who all live in Gahlen, we stay at the above stellplatz for 12 euros per night. We timed our visit to coincide with Bedia’s 14th birthday on Friday 12th May. It has been a long weekend of feasting, every time you turned round you were greeted with coffee and cake😊🎂☕️
The Friday afternoon was spent devouring birthday cake and drinking coffee with a lot of translation for muttis sake. Then early evening we headed off to a very nice self service Chinese restaurant that we have visited before.
The XIAO restaurant has a huge selection of food, it’s eat all you can for 22.90 euros each. There are at least 30 woks of stir fry type meals both meat and vegetarian, an area of raw fish and meat than you can select and take it be cooked and it is delivered to your table, there is even sushi. You can finish yourself off with a choice of 20 desserts plus ice cream. Our friends Annette and Neil would think they were in heaven.
Saturday saw us pay a visit to Dorsten to do a little shopping and of course you couldn’t miss out on stopping at an ice cream cafe for a little light refreshment.
Saturday evening in Schermbeck was advertised as a Caribbean evening with a band playing, a man made beach and refreshments ( of course).
A few fries and mayo were consumed and whilst I had a beer the others enjoyed a tropical cocktail. Sadly the band didn’t quite live up to expectation I couldn’t detect any carribean type songs but quite a few modern spanish dance along to numbers.
On Sunday I went with Wolfgang to visit his mother whilst the two ladies put the world to rights on their own, on the way back we called in at an asparagus farm, asparagus is a very popular dish here whilst in season and we had them for our evening meal with buttered potatoes.
Upon our return to Wolfgangs it was decided to go for a long walk to prepare ourselves for the evening meal, well by a mysterious chance the small lanes lead us to a strawberry farm where we just had to have strawberries and cream on a waffle with coffee.
Was the whole weekend devoted to eating, not not quite, we did manage to squeeze in the odd alcoholic drink or two and as always we talked for hours about so many subjects. This morning Wolfgang drove Layla and I to the vets where she had her pet passport validated for the return on the ferry.
It was a sad farewell but I’m sure it won’t be long before we meet up again.
taraabit 