Kalifornia...

I went to California (okay, Kalifornien) haha. It was great! Niklas kept saying lets go to California which is especially funny because his tour was all over California.

As it turns out it’s a real place right along the sea. Big sections of beaches (which they are ‘combing’ right now, scooping off the rocks…) beach chairs, beach gear, shops etc it was great. Since its so early in the season there isn’t anyone around yet but when I come back in a month the place will likely be packed!

I got into the water a little bit, its freezing cold! Swimming there would be hard really, besides that its freezing, you have to wade a long ways out to get to deeper water otherwise it’s a nice shallow sandy pool.

This was the first area I’d seen that had camping options also. Around here they seem to be RV campgrounds mostly. I could see that though, its really windy across that place. A tent would never survive. Their RV are really cute mini versions of our road warriors…

Right next to Kalifornien is a place called Brasilien. Ha! So we walked there to check it out, all we found was an enormous campground parking lot and the biggest rooster you’ve ever seen. I mean this thing was the size of a golden retriever! I couldn’t get him to move off his hilltop so the photo doesn’t do him justice.

Neither Niklas nor I were sure if that was all brazil had so we kept walking and walking and walking and ended up in a new village altogether. Ha. I guess Brazil is just a place you camp.

Along the way there were the funniest cows I’ve ever seen (simple minds, simple pleasures) how cute are they? Really small, shaggy curly hair and colored around their noses. I couldn’t get them to come closer to me either so no good photo but I am determined to snap a picture of one eventually.

There were restaurants and snack shacks at this village so we had a break before our long and upwind walk back to California. I had Pringles and a Diet Coke, a little taste of home I guess, haha.

Last night was a champions league soccer match on TV so we watched that. Apparently everyone in Germany is totally into it because two of the teams are German. Both have won but I’m still not sure what that means, Niklas said they play more games.

We also experimented with mixing our own cocktails, I mention this because later on I’m going to want to remember some of the mixtures…well one in particular. Its called (I learned yesterday) The Mexican. Its delicious. Made with this stuff called Sangrita (I bought the picante version) it’s a spicy tomato juice loaded with pepper or something…then you mix it with vodka (the actual recipe calls for korn, but I don’t know what that is exactly, a type of liquor) and Tabasco which I don’t like and we didn’t have anyways. So you mix it all up with more black pepper and drink it like a shot. Though you could add more juice and make it a ‘long drink’ that’s what they call things like Rum and Coke, long drinks…haha

The other concoction was nameless but really good, vodka and caramel syrup (the kind we Americans use for flavored coffees) sweet but like eating a piece of birthday cake. Ha!

Today I made Niklas get up early (he slept till noon yesterday, too long…so much to do…haha) we are headed up north to see some new country. I’ll also meet his mom today and it sounds like also his grandma. We are meeting Caroline there which will be really fun.