Day 4-Kandern/Burg Rötteln, 9 June 2007
The Night following Graduation Day is not easy on graduates. Shannon having, therefore, only turned in somewhere in the vicinity of the morning sunrise and consequently being completely out of it, the rest of us proceeded to have a good time and visit a castle. The castle in question, Burg Rötteln, was built in the 1200s as a border castle, and remained active long enough to have a rather rotten makeover in the 1600s; cannon slits and whatnot. It is currently in a half-ruined state, all the original floors are gone, and some of the walls. There was a wedding in process while we were there, in the ruins of the Great Hall, probably directly below where the chapel was originally.
The journey home was much swifter than the journey out, by not getting lost, and by taking the autobahn through the rain and hail. You can rely on the weather this time of year to be either raining, or rapidly growing very warm. The only time when it is a pleasant temperature is between cloudbursts, but the hot weather means the trenchcoat is quickly dropped at some convenient location, bound to be out of reach as soon as it starts raining.
By the time we returned to the flat, Shannon was in a groggy state of consciousness, in need of one of Jeeves' concoctions, no doubt. When she had more sufficiently woken up, we left for the Willsons together, as Susan was packing to leave the next morning for Spain.
It was an inefficient packing, to be sure, but we had a jolly time swapping Youtube videos and watching a episode of Stargate (1969). After Shannon left, I showed Susan my films, and she showed me the iKorean. I rounded the night off with a short story featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and slept.
*Pictures will be edited in soon.
