Onto my first full day in Germany, and it was not looking good. After a trip around the local industrial estate to find a receiver so that I can receive a TV signal (amongst other things) I took a short trip via the school to say hello (about 30 times), shake hands (about 30 times, multiplied by the number of shakes) and see what else had changed in the town.
Just as I decided that the weather was nice, and I'd walk home to continue my (wieder-)entdekungsreise the clouds came rolling in and the rain started. By the time I reached the relative safety of the ferry across the canal I was, to put it bluntly, wet. Durchnässt. Soaked.
Having dried out a little, I had to go shopping. Not that I really wanted to go and give ALDI my money, just that without going shopping I wouldn't have any dinner. The sun wasn't exactly shining, but it had stopped raining. I got my bike no further than the canal ferry (the road to the usual ALDI, just about the only thing in Schacht-Audorf that doesn't require a trip across the canal to get to, was closed, so I had to go a bit further) then the rain started, and by the time ALDI was reached I was, again, soaked.
Of course, when I got home, it stopped raining, the sun came out and was brilliantly sunny all afternoon. And I spent my first weekend in Germany with a stinking cold.
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