It is our final day here, so I’m feeling a little bit flappy, I always get a bit like that when trying to pack all my stuff away and making sure I do it all in the right order.
Somehow, even though we haven’t bought anything extra, three-quarter full bags appear to be fully bulging. I would guess because we came with our jumpers and anything woolly is going absolutely nowhere near our skins at the moment!
We eat everything that we can manage and hang some bananas off of Leon’s backpack, and take a full bottle of water from the fridge that we had pre-prepared… so I doubt it will stay cool for very long!
I do one final wrecky round the DM store, and get the blackberry lip balm that I like, and we popped to the Lindt shop to try the ‘cold hot chocolate’, as I called it to the shop assistant. It was beautifully refrigerated in there for obvious reasons. So we decided to make that our home for the next half an hour.
We plan to get a bus to Rastatt, a nearby town that is on the way-ish to the airport.
Long story short as the trains were exceptionally delayed and we spent quite a long time sat waiting but there was shade, we would’ve cooked like little boiled eggs.
Leon took the opportunity to have some currywurst and a beer at the train station, and he seemed happy enough! Simple things. The photo amuse me as there looks as if a sausage is growing out of his left ear. 
We abort the idea of getting a train, thinking maybe the tracks are too hot or something, and decided to get a bus to Rastatt.
When we got there, Rastatt was nice enough, though Leon announced it as a German Daventry! We quite like Daventry so that isn’t an insult. It’s just got more salt of the earth shops rather than fancy ones like Baden.
There is a baroque style Palace there as well, which we admired from the outside, walking around the back of it accidentally and then couldn’t be bothered to walk around the front because it was like an baron desert 🐪
While sat here, my trainers had to come off again, and I saw a rather discombobulated bee that went from the shade where we were sat into the scorching heat. It flapped about going further and further into the dry heat. Leon went to put some water near it which it just avoided. So I was a bit distressed that it was just going to die a horrible death there, so Leon to the rescue, scooped our buzzy friend up with his newly purchased cotton German baseball hat… and I have it that the bee gripped onto the front, forward facing, like a bee version of Aladdin on his magic carpet, flying towards safety! Leon popped him in a shady bit of vegetation of the formal garden, and hopefully the little guy had a chance of living there! Sadly, I don’t have a photo of this moment so we will have to imagine it.
We slowly plodded back through as much as shade as we could, towards a café, and took refuge there until our bus to the airport was due at 3:30 pm. I had a lemon iced tea and Leon had a Coke light. I also got a pepper pretzel and a raspberry trifle style cake (himmelkuchen).
We are now at the airport at 4:30 pm and our flight is not til, 7:30pm. I very much doubt we will have much interesting to report back on from this moment, but you never know! I suppose it’s probably a good thing if we don’t have anything extra to write about from here!