The PICTURESQUE AREA IN GERMANY WHERE MY MOM GREW UP (we never shared this!)
Hi! Hello! We are currently in Kiel which is at the Baltic Sea in the north of Germany. Yes! So we are in Schleswig-Holstein which is actually the area where my mother grew up and we never really shared that. No, we didn't. We we came here for a family gathering and we thought we would take this opportunity to show you the beautiful area. I spent a lot of time I'm here as a child and I really love it. It's such a gorgeous part - yeah - in Germany. Yes,
it's a wonderful part of Germany. Yes. We have a lot of family and well, we're walking in the footsteps of my beloved mom so we hope you will enjoy it. Now this afternoon we came to a very small and very idyllic village called Holzbunge which only has about 340 people and this is where my mom used to live when she was a child so she lived here with her parents and eight brothers and sisters. She used to to go to school here and she worked at a very lovely restaurant as a young girl. She worked there in the kitchen.
I miss my mother so much so I really wish I could show her this again. I came here with my parents decades ago. I only remember that it's absolutely beautiful. It somehow reminds me a little bit of England because you find thatched roof cottages here and we will go to the house where my mom used to live and maybe I can film it for you. It's so nice to be here. It just brings me even closer to my mom if that makes sense. There's a little stand and they sell fresh fish and potato salad and of course we have to try something. I love the potato salad here in the north of Germany.
It's how my mom used to make it. Fish bun which is a bun with ah, and it's salmon - yeah but this is - it's smoked salmon - smoked salmon in the - Stremellachs. Stremellachs. And this is potato salmon. It looks amazing. This is so tasty. Now in in the north of Germany potato
salad is made with mayonnaise and this one also contains eggs, I think onion, cucumber. It's really fresh. Now this is is where my mother used to live with her parents and brothers and sisters. We just walked past it and said look at the gorgeous blooms. I can't believe that I'm back here. It's such a wonderful village. It's so peaceful. And this is the house opposite the house where my mom lived. We just said it's beautiful especially with the gorgeous tree. Okay, we came to the Keramik-Café in Alt Duvenstedt next to Holzbunge.
Jörg has an 'Ostfriesentee'. Cheese/poppy seed cake. Cheese/tangerine cake. This is a, yea,h banana bread - or banana cake and café and look they make their own pottery. You can buy it here in the shop. And another cheese/poppy seed cake. Okay, my sister and my brother-in-law ordered 'Dead Aunt'. Yeah, a dead aunt. A dead
aunt. This is basically hot chocolate, cream and rum so a little bit of a twist and yeah, it has a little candle. I don't know if you can see this. Looks interesting. So this is what we just enjoyed cake and coffee. Keramic-Café. It's also a thatched roof cottage. It's so
beautiful. And you know what? I said to Jörg somehow I think that I have it in my genes that I really really love small and picturesque and very idyllic villages. This is very similar to some of the villages in the UK so if you want to want to visit Germany put that on your list. It's such a stunning place. This is the so-called Töpferhaus which is next to the Keramik-Café and it's the place where my mom used to work in the kitchen so it's still a restaurant but nowadays it's also a hotel. And the Töpferhaus is next to Bistensee. It's Jörg's first time in this area as well - but - we yeah - I love it. Yeah. It's so peaceful. Didn't my mom live in a gorgeous place in Germany like the just the
the area? I mean back in the day - it wasn't that nice. It wasn't - because they had to work very hard to make a living. Exactly. It wasn't romantic but the place itself, it's a gorgeous part of Germany, isn't it? And we will eat here. Yes. We will have dinner. Yes and we will celebrate your mother. Yes. I think she would be so proud. You can just feel her presence. We we are walking in her footsteps and I'm glad that we came. Yeah. Honestly, I'm so glad
This is 'Labskaus'. Beetroot - fish - herring fillet. Of course. This is herring fillet, apple cream sauce, wedges. Cucumber salad, fish & chips. Is this remoulade? Another herring fillet but this one is, what's the sauce called? You also have remoulade. And
wedges. Enjoy! We came to Schönberger Strand and the moment we arrived I had childhood memories because we visited this area very often with our relatives, had fish so like a a fish roll. It's a wonderful place. We are in Oma's Kaffeestuuv - yes, Granny's tea house. This is gluten free cake which looks yummy. Look how greedy Jörg is! He has waffles, cherries, ice
cream and another waffle with strawberries and cream. Yummy. Now this place is so lovely. Oma's Kaffeestuv. Very quirky, a huge selection of cakes. Unfortunately I couldn't film it because there were many people but if you're
in the area I mean just look at the house it's so beautiful. We can honestly highly recommend it so yeah, see you can find amazing cafes in Germany as well with gluten free cakes. We have just arrived at the most wonderful hotel here in Malente. It's called Hofgut Immenhof and yeah, we're on our last leg of this Germany trip so we will be returning to England tomorrow. And
my sister booked this hotel months ago so they're staying at the big house actually. We're staying here at the. this is the coach house where we booked a room. I will give you a little room to in a minute but what I wanted to share is that Immenhof was a very popular almost like a series on TV. It consists of five films. It was shot in the 50s, mid-50s and 70s and we watched all of the films. It was very popular with children and teenagers. This here is basically like a bigger country house and yeah, we'll have dinner here tonight and it's absolutely wonderful. We will
try to film outside. There will be rain. No, it is actually raining so we might be able to film a little bit tomorrow morning but now I will give you a little room tour. So this here is actually one of the simpler rooms but I find it absolutely stunning. So you come in here and then walk into the bedroom. By the way Jörg is parking the car. That's why he's not here. I sat on the bed, that's why it's looking like this. This is the entire, well, estate and yeah, it's raining unfortunately so there are horses. I hope it stops raining tonight. Then we can just have a little wander
around. So here is a little seating area which I really like. The rooms are very bright and airy. A little bit scandi style I would say. Big wardrobe. Mirror. Look here! I wonder if that's whether that is actually from the series. I don't know. Yeah, here to the left is the bathroom which is great so a think I haven't even checked so yeah, this is the shower and here you can see the big house actually so my sister and my brother-in-law are actually staying in the big house and we are here in the coach house. And you
can see it's absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to have a look around so if you're having a shower you can of course close everything but I just wanted to show you the the big house. I was just talking to my sister and she said before she unpacks I should film the room because, um, it's supposed to be so nice. So ours is just as I said like a regular smaller room and she obviously has a very big room so, yeah, I just go over there and share it. I haven't seen it either. Now this is where we are staying which I also find very charming. And this is
where my sister Claudia and my brother-in-law Christoph are staying in the big house and see she's there. They have the huge balcony. It's like they own the place. That's not fair, is it? Okay, I'm in my sister's room and she said she had no idea that they would get this room. They just booked a room in the big house and they are so surprised and it's so gorgeous. She said 'you should share it on YouTube' because the hotel is amazing. This is where you come into the room. My sister is on the balcony. She doesn't really want to be filmed which I always respect so this here is the gorgeous room and I absolutely love the deep shade of green. It looks amazing.
Gorgeous bed. I said to my sister we don't have a desk and I said 'Okay, I'm envious' because we don't have a desk and I actually wanted to work tonight but, well, maybe I have to come to this room. You know what? I go onto the balcony in a second so look how big it is. I also love the artwork in here. And in here is the the mini bar. It's beautiful. And then here is the gorgeous bathroom. Of course they have a tub. We don't but that's totally fine. So in here is the the
toilet. The shower. I hope you like it. I'm glad that my sister suggested that we should stay here as well. And the entire area, it's gorgeous. Look at the artwork. I just want to grab it and take it back to the UK. And this is the balcony. Isn't this a wonderful place? And in case you don't know because so many of you know Luca of course, Jörg's godson. And Claudia and Christoph are his parents.
When in Germany you have to eat asparagus - because it's asparagus season. Yes. We don't really get white asparagus in the UK - no - potatoes, veal. Sauce Hollandaise. Oh yes. Sauce Hollandaise. You have ox cheek. Veal. Sauce Béarnaise. Good orning! Good morning! We simply want to tell you once more how beautiful this place is. Yes, I
love it. Me too. And the food yesterday was so good. It really was. You know when my sister, when we were thinking of, well, if we will come to Germany for the family festivity, we we didn't really know and she said, well, I booked a couple of nights here at this place. Won't you join us? And I had a look at the website and thought okay it looks nice but the reality of it, it's gorgeous! Yes! It's really beautiful. Yeah, the entire area and we we can really recommend it. What my sister did because she knew she was coming much earlier, she got such a great deal. Yeah. She actually pays the same amount for her room - as we do - as we do but we booked too late so if you book early you can get an amazing deal. And the area - you know - yes,
it's it's really beautiful. Holsteinische Schweiz. Yes yes. You know actually we we we need to share that. This area was the place where we spent our very first holiday together. Yes, in Malente. But back then it wasn't that nice because we chose the wrong place. Yeah yeah. We were just very young
and naive. As you can see Jörg has the umbrella. Yeah. The weather isn't too nice but we can't complain. No, I don't and I don't care because it's our last day. Yes. And we were so lucky. Yes. You know what? So this here is the boat house house and as you can see it has a thatched roof. I said to Jörg last night that would be a great office. The size of it. Yes. But an office with a boat. Well, yeah. It's such a wonderful area and here so the hotel is right next to the lake. This is Keller Lake, right? Yeah. Kellersee. Kellersee yeah. Well. Lake is 'See'. Keller Lake.
I also think this video contains a lot of food snippets - yeah - so you must think okay they're eating all the time. Well, we are eating all the time. No not really but, well, we of course we make use of it. Yeah? Yeah, we're making the best of it because because of German cakes and German schnitzel -asparagus - asparagus yes. There's also a shop here. Hofladen. And I spotted something
sheep related so we're going to have a look later. So this is the big house from the other side and last night Claudia and I said wouldn't this place be absolutely perfect for a wedding reception? And we also said should Luca decide to get married one day, you never know, he could choose this gorgeous place. Jörg and I would definitely come and, well, yeah just I don't know stay another week. We need to show you what we bought here. Now these are actually coasters and with animals so tiles. We fell so in love with them and actually thought maybe we could
use them for tiles in the kitchen. We don't really know so. And this is a candle holder that we saw in the in the in the window. Look, a sheep candle holder. Jörg! It's lovely. Isn't it gorgeous? This is a wonderful memory. Perfect for us.
So you can probably see where we are. We are at the airport. It's Hamburg airport actually. We have to go back to England and we are both quite sad. And this is actually our very first time at Hamburg airport so we came here we arrived last Thursday here and the airport feels a bit more quiet and relaxed compared to Frankfurt. Yeah but it's probably just because it's an evening - weekday - and Tuesday - weekday. Yes. My only worry is that we have a layover in Frankfurt so we're going from Hamburg to Frankfurt, have a layover. Only
50 minutes so a stop of 50 minutes and then I'm a bit worried that we might miss our flight. I don't know. I actually have a second name. I think we shared it two years ago. It's - Kirsten Worrybe. Jemima Worrybe. No. Yeah. Kirsten Jemima Worrybe. Yeah but Jörg always so positive
so I trust in you - but because you spoke about us missing the plane in Frankfurt - yeah - that it's now 95% sure that we're gonna miss. No because you are so positive we will be fine.
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