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IMG_1091 * On Saturday morning, Dine gives Carol a tour of her garden...

IMG_1097 * where the flowers were already in bloom...

IMG_1093 * and we find an old water pump. TIme to head to Dine's hometown of Elten.

IMG_1102 * Dine's brother Köbi and his daughter Claudia greet us.

IMG_1104 * Ed presents Köbi with a tourquise watch band from New Mexico.

IMG_1108 * Thea cooks up a great meal for lunch... or dinner. It's the main meal of the day.

IMG_1109 * Later Köbi gives us a tour of his bar before heading...

IMG_8638 * up the hill to the old church.

IMG_1116 * At the monument at the church...

IMG_1120 * if you sit in the carved stone chair...

IMG_1119 * you can see the gardens of the castle of Schwanenburg home of Anne of Cleves (Kleve) who was 'encouraged' to marry King Henry VIII of England. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves

IMG_1118 * It's a bit cold outside...

IMG_1122 * so we head into St Vitus which was heavly damaged in WWII. The wood carved altar is very old...

IMG_1125 * and the interior mixes romanesque with gothic architcture.

IMG_1129 * Carol hears about the history of this church built in the 1100's from Köbi's daughter-in-law Michaela.

IMG_1134 * The church cemetary was most unusual in that no two headstones were the same.

IMG_1138 * Köbi and Dine stand behind the stone of thier parents and grandparents.

IMG_1142 * Next stop, the home of the parents, now the home of the son of Köbi, Christoph.

IMG_1144 * We see an old windmill across the road...

IMG_1145 * as well as the border of the Netherlands. In 1949 Elten was a part of the Netherlands until 1963 when it was returned to Germany.

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