"Time to Say Goodbye," sounded in our car when we started a week ago in the Maria-Ward-Strasse. I felt a few tears of emotion, but Hans Christian looked only forward. Our parting was come, it was not that hard. We are grateful, for we have seen a lot of nice, since 10 years ago we were together for the first time been here. Bamberg was once our "dream city", but we have not experienced much of what we might have to save? Well, there are experiences that we have to do well simply.
When we arrived in Bamberg, it had rained on the highway we could not even see the towers of the city. Then, the day-long war of nerves was the sale of our apartment to continue this. We were advised of a franc, which seemed to confirm all the prejudices that I have all the years Bamberg did not want to admit. My always optimistic and positive attitude was shaken vast, so bad that I could not stop thinking of the words of my neighbor, who had said after the sale of a house to me, The Bamberger are terribly petty and greedy. And also pessimistic and negative in its expression. "Life is more than money, greed and possessiveness ..." I later wrote a dedication to a certain gentleman in my book "Life is more". 
had the day before the conclusion of the contract, I almost gave up in exasperation. And I said to Hans Christian that I could well understand that his mother was after the war to get back to Cologne wanted to go back. For the Cologne is naturally optimistic, cheerful and positive, he loves life and always has a great zest for life. And certainly wanted to Hans Christian's mother forgot what they had experienced in the war here. The childhood memories of the war came to my husband in our old apartment earlier bestowed on him nightmares and panic attacks and increased his illness. Also in the new apartment he could not let go of the traumas of his childhood, which are closed, perhaps forever in his soul. was not until the long summer months at sea, he gradually came to rest, so that mature our decision to abandon the residents of Bamberg. 
A friendly notary brought the apartment sale to a good end, and we breathed a sigh of relief. Because the impressions of the last weeks of our good experience in Bamberg had but very troubled. But now we learned to compensate for the negative encounters: We provide our officers visited the bank, which had governed for weeks with me all the financial matters with the purchase of the house and sold the flat, individually, easy and reliable, and everything by email. The move manager came and planned our pull-competent and trustworthy - we would not have to be there. Then we went to our friendly family doctor, who supported us for many years with great understanding in our search for the right way and helped my husband very much, had overcome his fear of doctors. We no big farewell round had planned, but we said, but to many people, and we talked, wanted to move why do we: That's it back and iron between Bamberg and Fehmarn us for a long time too much, and it is the health of my husband detrimental. We found an excellent therapist to Fehmarn. On the Baltic Sea, we live a lot calmer and healthier than in the hectic city, the vast cultural offering of the disease of my husband we could not perceive a long time.
sparked On Saturday, the tension gradually and I was looking forward to one last visit to the Bamberg Weekly market. Along the way, I was irritated by the endless traffic jams, at the parking garage I had to wait first until I could go into it. Then I went over the Maxplatz because I wanted to say goodbye to our family market, which had supplied us for years with good fruit and vegetables. There was a slight drizzle, the green market was full of people - locals and rushing trödelnde tourists. For this purpose a organ grinder, who played an old tearjerker.
Our Marktoma was concerned and upset when I told her that we put on the Baltic Sea. It is a shame to lose good customers. The son said only: You have rights! And then went on the business, because It was Saturday and the people crowded in front of the big stand to do their weekend shopping. Exhausted, I came back to the car and drove back to the Maria-Ward-Strasse, where this Saturday at least, were the construction stopped.
In the afternoon we had invited our neighbor to the coffee. Many stories were told, then we went to our apartment to receive the next visit. A nice couple with whom we had done business previously only came with sparkling wine and nibbles. We talked and laughed all the experience and suffered was processed cheerful. They said that they would opt for life at sea when they would not have her shop in Bamberg. Finally, the bottles were empty, the first Fehmarn vacation the couple had planned and we took our leave of each other very much. On Sunday I wanted
then began finally to work off my list for all the things I pack in the apartment itself, or even take. Monday we ordered another new car that would be suitable for Hans Christian much better. Finally the exchange was worked out of our car! The biggest surprise was that the seller wants us to bring the car in December to Fehmarn. Now we were a little reconciled to the Bamberg. And I thought about the beautiful poem by Pelagia think they are the occasion the message was sent from our move:
way Today I met
luck on the way
four-leaf
green with hope
In small
the Great recognize
I stay on
sky Because
Despite all the stress of this last Bamberger week we had yet had much luck. Linta also sent me a poem that I provided food for thought:
is wrong ways
Sometimes you at an intersection
and knows the direction of not more has totally misjudged
was just thoughtless
it takes time again
to reflect
to the right path but yet to find a lot of time!
For us there is no "Irr"-way, but only paths. Everything has a meaning in life. The picture does - we were standing at an intersection last spring and were confident that the road was newly built apartment in a senior citizens the right one. A year ago we would not have thought of moving to Fehmarn, although the desire lay dormant for some time in us. But my husband was still a little run and we had placed great hope in the new apartment. When buying, we could not have guessed that he would be a little later than nursing care from the University Hospital of return.
We had been looking forward to the summer on our to enjoy the large balcony. But it was built there a lot and you could only find some peace with the windows closed, as I told the neighbors. In the coming years is expected there with large construction activity, the proximity to nature will be disrupted. Even the weather was not that great this summer. Here on Fehmarn seems every day the sun, at least for a short time, and we are doing very well, like the sea, the observation of birds and cloud images.
We understand why the purchase of expensive new apartment is no "wrong way" was that we gained more knowledge about the place where we want to live. And we had the experience that we could buy an object - here on Fehmarn we would have been virtually a house for rent. I was amazed at myself that I wanted to have a house with a terrace and garden, and that we affirm both the rural environment. At last, green and blooming around us, even an apple tree, and inside we can keep plants again, maybe even a little dog.
My friend wrote me recently: "You will achieve, whether or not to detour to your goal." Yes, we apparently have on our "false starts" now found a place to live, want to stay where we are. And we love long deep in our hearts. How else could you explain the that we drove last year, just before we moved into a new apartment, even for a few days after Fehmarn? At that time I wrote in my blog:
"Yes, it is like the arrival in the home port after a long journey. This trip to Fehmarn was just on a whim, a feeling. But we thought that we would come back in the summer. The old apartment in Bamberg is no home for us - the new one yet. And so, Fehmarn, our small intimate apartment here, a kind of retreat.
As we drove south beach avenue to the beach and looked at the Fehmarn bridge in the light of the setting sun - it was just beautiful. I said: Never give up - you should never give up his dreams! Because life is here and now "
In this memorable summer on Fehmarn to our dreams, we simply heard and received the signals of life.. Here by the sea, we have concentrated on what we are important in life: health, nature, tranquility and peace, our time together and our love. And so I close this blog with the line from Hermann Hesse's poem "Steps":
The call of life to us is never ending ...
Well, my heart, take leave and healthy!
Forsbach Beate, 12 October 2010 leave of Bamberg in the senior citizens' club on the web
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