the last night @ our hotel, we decided that rather than head straight to dinner, we’d first take a short excursion to see where the trail through the woods behind the hotel led. We walked down the steep & muddy path to find a small lake. On the opposite side, we could see several restaurants. So we went there.

We had a delicious meal in comfortably informal surroundings, & t half-liters of wine. Then it was time to pay. I hadn’t brought my wallet, not expecting restaurants at all. D had, but didn’t know the pincode for the credit card. No signature possible.

So i ran, literally, around the lake and up the steep & mu