This was an active weekend! Today I continued with getting up early, quick run to the pool for a few laps, breakfast with fresh bread rolls and my roommate Vera, then a bit of work and afterwards hiking with three friends more or less cross country to the Spatzennest (Sparrow’s nest), a house and restaurant by the local Naturfreunde (Friends of the Earth) in a nature reserve not far from here. So I picked everyone up and we walked there in something like three hours through forest, farmland, and gullies with steep slopes, mud holes and rain included!!! It was great fun!! We even came across a soccer game on a village’s soccer field and watched and cheered for a while ;) *hehe*  Fortunately, there was sun, not too much rain, it was pleasently warm and many spring flowers such as Märzenbecher (Snowflakes) were already covering the ground in the forest. It was nice getaway! Now I am off to take a hot shower … YAYYYYY!!! :)