Sure live was tough in the Middle Ages, but it's fun to visit all the castles over here in Germany...there are several at our place and we love to visit them again and again, there's so much love put in the details, you can see complete sceneries and paintings and armors and everything and it just feels grand to stand on a castle and watch over the widespread open country, you just know you're standing were many people all through the ages have stood before...
There's even a famous open air museum quite close to us, it's very interesting to see the houses of people from the Middle Ages...it's not a time I would have loved to live, but I think a safe look back in time is wonderful and educational...

Catcrazy lady, I love dumplings, too, but I've never heard of such tiny ones in our area...were they stuffed or were they served as a starter?!
Did you have gravy with them or just butter sauce?!

It's fun to know how many of you have lived here, but I guess most of you have travelled the South, maybe you should come again and visit the Sauerland?! Plenty of forests, hills and lakes and castles of course...