Wednesday, August 5, 1959

LAKE TRIBUNE

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PHONE 23

more like the European kids.
There is no reason why they

and put them inside our tents
and crouched over the flames

My last letter was writte 12
Kilometers from Munich, so I'll
go back to then and tell you
what has happened. We packed |
the car in the rain and drove|
into Munich, where we spent the}

city that even boasted a Wool-;
worth’s store. I bought myself |
a charm for my bracelet and it
is a cute beer stein with a
moveable top. As the rain con-
tinued to fall all day we unani-
mously decided that we would
spend the night in the Munich
hostel rather than attempt to
put up a wet tent.

The hostel is really big and
holds 500 kids. We were lucky
to get in as the German schools
began their symmer vacation
the previous day and the place
was full of school kids who were
hitch-hiking and riding bikes
over Germany for the summer.
It was a beehive of activity with
the common room full of people
singing and rushing everywhere.
Of all the people in the hostel
there were no more than six
who spoke English. After
checking in we proceeded to the

ner for 25 cents, Our meal con-
ga of soup, one German
heaps of potatoes and
a cup of milk. When we
arrived at the hostel we met
Les, who we came across on the
boat with. it was a grand re-
union.

sausage,

VISIT BEER HOUSE

Atter supper, Alan, Les, his
iriend Ian, Janet and I went to
a beer house. We had a lot of
fun, We also had two you
English nurses sitting with us.
The beer houses over here are
really nice, they have a casual
atmosphere. The interiors are
usually in dark wood and the
tables are an assortment of sizes.
They aren't loud, brawly place:
but people just sit over a stein
of beer and talk and even play

really quite a chara
though he spoke no
he talked on and on to us, As
parting gift he gave Janet and
Ia chocolate bar, We were only
able to stay an hour as we had
to be back in the hostel by ten
o'clock. Before we left for our
night out, Marg and Jeanette
said they would put our over-
night bags in our lockers so
that we wouldn't have to waste
time. When we arrived back
we had to run up to the third
floor, ask where the lock
were and then run all the way
down into the basement. We
hadn't listened to the directions
properly so we couldn't find the
lockers and Janet had to tear
back upstairs for more di
tions while I continued the
search.

LEFT IN THE DARK

Meanwhile the house father
arrived on the scene and spoke |
very briskly to me in German
I told him I didn’t speak Ger-
ked if he could tell
was—and

man and a
me where locker
do you know what he did, be
turned the lights off on me and
marched off and left me alone

a room i

in the dark locker
broke the record*for the 440
getting up to the third floor

Janet and I nearly col-

again.
lided as she was on her way
down to find me and tell me that
our things were in another

locker room and shé had man-
aged to grab our sleeping sheets |
and pyjamas, So, into our room |
we went, made up our beds and
turned in. What a night! The |
beds were raised at the top, the
same as in Switzerland, and I
had a funny little straw pillow
that was as hard as could be.
was 6:30 but we

Rising time
had some over ea
in our room who were up and

oung girls

prancing about at 5:50.

Les, who is a physical educa-
has booked pass-

teacher,
to Capetown on
but now he

tion
the same

ship as Janet and I,
i oing as he
ym-

not sure if he is
wants to take a five-month
nastic course in Denmark.
We left Munich in the morn-
and drove through Bavaria
preity

The country was very
with its lovely hills and moun-
tains. We siopped to see a
iry-like castle that had been
built by Ludwig Ul. Alan,
Jeanette and I hiked up to

a close look. One more ste
climb and T'll be a candidate for
the Swiss mountaineering club.

Sylvia Baker’s Letter Home

Travellers see many
castles in Germany

Guldn't take to the road for a
couple of weeks each summer,
do a little camping and see part
of Canada and the States. The
mofe fortunate ones ride bikes
and they all look sturdy and
healthy. I am not nearly so
narrow minded about Europeans
since I have done a little travel-
ling myself. I had some really
funny ideas as to how I thought
people over here should be li
ing, I was under the impression
that Europe was a “has been”
and that North America was the
place. How wrong I was, ithe
people here have the old and
the new together and very few
people speak only one language.
When I get home I will look
at new Canadians in a different
light.

with our sleeping bags and
dried a bit at a time.

OFF COURSE

Yesterday I was chief naviga-
tor for Alan and I really goofed.
I missed a turn-off and we drove
70 kilometers off our course. I
was the only one who knew we
were on the wrong road so I
didn’t tell the other kids until
we were nearly back on the
right road. However, everyone
agreed it was a nice trip. We
passed through Frieburg, but
I have been really surprised |didn’t stay too long. It seemed
nm towns, to be a nice city with the usual
very cle: and the cathedral, museum and univer-
are. mor and Austrian sity. Funny thing about all the
looking than I expected, Even | cathedrals in Europe, they all
the people in the smailer towns|seem to be under repair and
wear Austrian type clothes. A|have scaffolding around one or
lot of the buildings have lovely |two spires.

The Germans are great walkers.
We see a lot of people carrying
walkin. icks with them. [
suppose they would be handy
when you are climbing hills.

scenes painted on them which| On the outskirts of Frieburg|COOKING CALAMITY
I think is nice. Some of them|we picked up a young Danish| It is Sunday evening and I
are really artistic. ry student who was hitch-hiking|am sitting on’a car seat in the

We took to the woods again /back to Copenhagen. He spoke woods near Stuttgart. We just
after our night in the hostel.|very good English and we had|devoured the most scrumptous
When we unpacked the rack we/an entertaining afternoon talk-|meal of watery spaghetti. The
found that our sleeping bags/ing to him. There are young|spatghetti tonight was my effort
: well as the tent was soaked.|boys all along the roads with|and it was a bit of a me:
Being as brilliant as we are, we| packs on their backs. It is toolean’t figure out what went
merely lit two small gas stoves bad the kids at home aren't wrong. We all had a goo!

laugh over it and I proudly
served it as Hungarian goulash.

AMERICAN RADIO STATIONS
We spent most of the day
poking around Stuttgart, which
is another very: modern city.
Reason for wasting time is be-
cause we want to take a tour
of the Zeiss Ikon factory More
news tomorrow. The factory
isn't open to visitors so we are
out of luck. Remember a few
years ago we used to listen to
Lux Radio theatre? Well last
night we girls sat up in the car
and listened to King Solomon’s
Mines while the boys were off
walking, and we thoroughly en-
joyed it and are looking for-
ward to next week’s play. Since
our arrival in Germany. we have
been able to tune into American
radio stations that are operated
by the armed forces over here.
I forgot to mention that from
Frieburg to Stuttgart we drove
through the Black Forest area.
It is a vast woodland and it
is in this area that people dress
in their traditional costumes
and the outsides of the houses
are painted with scenes.
Today Janet and I bought a
tin of yellow cling peaches. We

are going to eat them before
we go to bed tonight so I am
wishing the next two hours
away.” We also purchased a tin
of instant coffee. Wait till you
hear what it cost us, 250 grams
(about a half pound) for $5.
It must be flavored with gold.

DISAPPOINTED

After a visit to Dinkelsbuhl
we followed the neckar River
into Heidelburg and passed 38
castles on the way and we by
mo means saw all the castles.
Heidelburg was a great dis-
appointment to me, it wasn’t
at all the quaint town I had
visualized. It is now an
Americanized place with little of
the old atmosphere left. How-
ever, it does have a lovely set-
ting on the banks of the Neckar
River. We spent the day brows-
ing through the streets and I
bought a few gifts.

To date most of Germany has
been agricultural, but yesterday
on our way to Luxembourg we
saw a diiferent section, the be-
ginning of the industrial area.
From Luxembourg we will re-
turn to Frankfurt and then fol-
low the Rhine north. More
mews next week.

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