Stuart and I walked around Braunfels, through the park and had a coffee in the market place cafe. It is very quiet - hardly any traffic noise.
Then we went to the Hessenpark museum, half an hours drive away, - as guests of the Burgermeister (Mayor) Deiter Schmidt. Deiter is retiring next week after 12 years as Mayor. In Europe Mayors are directly elected by the people, and it is a full time paid job - Braunfels has an election on 8th October. Hassenpark is an open air museum of buildings showing the history of this region of Germany (Northwest of Frankfurt). The buildings are taken apart bit by bit and carefully re-assembled and restored. You can walk into the houses, church and school house and have a look at how people used to live.
In the evening we attended a film show - home movies of Braunfels twin town activities in the last 25 years (the weekend was a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the town winning the European Prize for town twinning, a rare achievement). Gemma and Chris went to the nearby big town with some of the younger Germans and visitors and visited a local disco.
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