World champion

A break is not only relaxing, enjoyable and recharging.  A holiday also means a new start afterwards with new ideas, new plans and most of all great new resolutions as to how we are going to improve every aspect of life and business. Holidays are not only good for us but for everyone around us, as we turn easier, friendlier and open to new plans and proposals. The daily routine has lots its crippling hold over us and new ways become possible. 
I love holidays, especially the summer, when we close for over 3 weeks and go to Germany for nearly a month. A complete break with life at home, we reconnect with family, become a little bit German again and alternate lazy days of sunshine, chat and food with days of pure tourism and then again with driving days to get to more people to talk to and eat with. This year we became even more German than normal as we went native and became “Weltmeister”, joining the wonderful excitement of the world cup and that wonderful goal that got us that much wanted 4th star. Speltbaker’s car now sports German flag magnets and a window flag and we even took part in the local “auto-corsa”, where after a win, everyone takes to the roads and takes over the local round-abouts for lots and lots of victory laps. Germans, who normally are terribly law abiding,  seat belt wearing and sometimes quite boring in their seriousness, could now be seen driving 8 to  a car with one sitting out of each window, waving their flags and shouting their happiness from the roof tops. We have changed and have become able to show our joy and pride in our national team in a way that used never be possible. “Wir sind Weltmeister!”. After nearly 70 years, the Germans are again able to pronounce themselves winners, to be proud and cheeky – without feeling guilty that they are not feeling guilty anymore. Happy people are always good to see and happy people spread happiness around them. So we had a very happy holiday and come back invigorated and ready for another year of work and play, of a growing business, an ambitious cycling project  and of changing lives as children leave school and move on. This blog will now come to you twice a week while the junior baker is starting on Youtube with her vlog “Girl on tour”. Massive energy all around.