Weeks #19 to #21: I had 9.5 holidays within 15 working days. Holidays are always too short, but this time much too short and much too often interrupted. In between we had three family birthday parties, the first personal meeting with external parties (which was really strange after twelve weeks working from home and six weeks in the office without any personal external contact) and a trip to the Tegernsee, the Oberallgäu and to Austria in the Bregenzerwald and the Kleinwalsertal.
There we went canyoning (see above). Some of us jumped 9 m, others (me) had to abseil. We were in Austria on Wednesdays and almost nobody wore a mask there (except us and some other tourists probably). In a restaurant, the owner complained that we shouldn’t wear a mask because we wouldn’t have to. Since Friday they have to wear it again!
For the outward journey we took the train. The ICE was quite full, most of the passengers wore masks. Except for the four people from the Ruhr area who, when we sat down on our seats at 10:37 a.m., already had an empty beer bottle in front of them. Two more pints each followed until Munich. And while you hold on to a more or less empty beer bottle, you don’t have to wear a mask in their erroneous opinion. That bothered me less than the garbage they told each other. And I was so fascinated by it, I couldn’t listen away.
On Tuesday, on my way home from the office, I had my first spontaneous flat bike tire ever. I always watch out for broken glass, but I ran into a tiny ear stud fastener. A friend picked me up halfway through the forbidden city. Otherwise, I would have been caught in a heavy rain. Lucky in misfortune, as so often.
School starts again on Monday. In Hesse (thank you, federalism) the responsibility for the hygiene concept lies with the schools. We have received a short instruction for the first day (different starting times for the classes, compulsory masks and distance rules in the schoolyard). We are curious about how long child #2 and #3 will actually have lessons in school.
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