We moved from Tuttlingen to Ludwigshafen at the Lake of Constance (Bodensee) a week ago. The apartment we are staying at is gorgeous. Views of the lake from every window, and only a short walk to the Strandbad (beach). You can take a view right here ->
http://ferienwohnung-seesicht.de/ It is so comfortable here and we really feel at home now. One of the things however that come with changing location and can be a little challenging is to find a new "safe" bakery, and butcher. On the first workday at our new location I set out on the quest to "safe" food for the girlies. I went to next larger town which is Stockach,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockach. It did take me a while to find a "safe" baker and butcher. The first three bakeries I stopped at did not have any lactose free/dairy free products. I am not sure, if they were just not willing to check into but I certainly did not want to take a chance. Same story at each of the bakeries I finally was on my way to the health food store but found it closed. I took a chance and ask one more person, who then told me to check out one more bakery. Voila!!! Even the Bretzeln are safe :)
http://www.ainser.de/, and right next to the bakery was a butcher who also only uses dextrose in their products and not lactose? I call that a double score :)
http://www.metzgerei-bechler.de/
It took me more than a couple of hours, but so worth it. I think the lesson when traveling in Germany is to find a bakery that indicates they are "Bio", "Bioland" I say that because the other day we took a day trip to Radolfszell and there we found a "Bio Baecker" whose breads, bretzels, etc. are also all "safe" - yay!!!
http://www.bioknoedel.info/
Here is one more vacation picture of the girlies from our day trip to the Pfahlbauten ->
http://www.pfahlbauten.de/
