Wednesday (June 16th) was a travel day: from Dublin by Ryanair to Memmingen, Germany, then by train to Tuttlingen, changing trains in Ulm. We caught the bus to Dublin Airport a little before 8 a.m. and arrived in Tuttlingen a little more than nine hours later. In contrast to sunny, warmish Dublin, in southern Germany it was cold and rainy. A young American woman, living and looking for work in Munich, and with whom we shared the taxi from Memmingen Airport to the train station, said that just recently it had been in the 80s there. Not now.
We are staying with Mary Joy's friend and colleague Bernard, a native of De Pere, Wisconsin, who has spent decades now as a church music director in Germany. Her recital is at one of his two churches, which is where she went immediately after dinner for an hour and a half of practice, worried about not having played since 11:30 mass on Sunday.
Today (Thursday, June 17th), she has been practicing again, with a break for lunch (I made spaghetti). She will have to take a break again at 3:45--because of rosary at the church--when I'll meet her after walking there (1.8 kilometers, or a little over a mile, according to Google Maps).
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