Going wild

I know I have mentioned this before, but Marty's collegue Sabine has been amazingly kind to us while we have been here. Our latest adventure with Sabine, Robert and their little one was to Spreewald- a 'wilderness' area about an hour from Dresden.

When Sabine described this area to us, I have to admit that we were thinking wilderness-NZ-style, and it wasn't quite like that...

It was, however, very cool. The area is a UNESCO world heritage site and the 1500-odd-km of channels of rivers were created during the ice age. We took advantage of the water and hired kayaks for the day to explore the area and had a great time meandering through the channels. In that excellent German way, there were also beer gardens regularly throughout the area, so stopping for lunch was no trouble :)