This blog collects notes from Höfen, a small village in Southern Germany, where Kathrin from public works was living and working for a year.

three o'clock routine


If one of the women in the village turns 70, 75, 80 , ... the rest joins up to collect money for a present and flowers, and meet at 3pm on the day to visit the birthday girl for cofee and cake. I could spot more than 200 euors in the present, and they reassured me that they always manage to get this amount easily.