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We saw some interesting shopping places in the more remote mountain villages. A van driving through town selling clothing, like a Macy`s on wheels, a bakery shop on wheels and several combo building- material- and- beverage- market establishments.
We met a lady from Lebanon, who lives with her German husband in Crete, selling carpets. We talked with her for some time and actually bought a small carpet from her.
The water supply consists of rubber hoses running in the ditch alongside the “highways” from village to village. The houses are all built with stone and cement and a flat roof. You can tell, if there are plans to built another level in the future. In that case steel rods are sticking out of the flat cement roof to anchor the next level.
In the meantime we have made it back to Biberach,Germany ( license plate B.C.) The oldest house is from 1318 A.D. , which was determined by dating the annual rings of the trees used for construction. Our next stop is Würzburg,Germany. This is a town with a lot of history, since Gabi and I met there in 1976 !

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