Holiday in Germany

Just back after spending 10 days in Germany =)
The first four days we were watching the World Rally - Round 10. As you can see from the two photos below, we had great weather.

This is Solberg driving past a vine yard. Most of the action goes past vines. My fav. driver.
This is the 'OOOA' car , which checks the track is OK before the race starts, going though a town. Each day there are 6 or 8 stages driven on closed public and private roads.
Sebastine Loeb won AGAIN !! But at least Solberg finished this year.

The rest of the week we had time to explore the Mosel Valley. We were based in Trier. The first day we walked into the town for a look round. As the Rally is always held near Trier we know the town quite well. DH wanted a chance to visit the two model train shops. A successful shopping for him (although later in the week we found another shop in a small village where he picked up another bargan). I had bought a couple of cross stitch kits mostly for the bell pull hanging hardware than the charts and a number of magazines. We again found 'Maxi' a store I have brought clothes from before. Although I was not in the mood DH insisted we go in and I ended up buying a new pair of jeans and a top !!! =)

Spent a couple of days driving the Mosel Wine Road,which follows the course of the Mosel river. We stopped quite often to look at the view, take photos and sometimes have a coffee. This year we managed to buy six bottle of wine from a local vintner. Before leaving we also had a quick shop at the supermarket to pickup a few things you can not buy in the UK.... Like a crate or two of BitBerg.... pickles and wusrt. DH also took me back into Trier town center to 'Maxi' to buy a second pair of the jeans as I had spent the week telling him how comfy they are (Well they are) and ended up with two new tops. I think the owner was at first a little confused why I wanted to buy the same pair. The weather during the week was mostly good =)

The slide show below gives you a little taste of the area.

Been back a day or so , apart from fighting with the piles of washing (now mostly done) and generally putting everything away, I have had a creative moment on Sunday afternoon. One of my pairs of jeans died while we were in Germany (thanks goodness I had a new pair) but the dead pair I had embroidered the legs so I did not want to loose the work. So had an idea to turn them into a small bag !! Added one of the back pockets too. Pictures below =) I may now added additional embroidery or/and beads.