This year’s German Unity Day (3rd October) happily fell on a Friday, which made for another long weekend to travel before winter set in. Five of us went for a trip through the Black Forest (Schwarzwald in German), including three of my Chinese friends and an Australian friend visiting me on his tour of Germany. 今年的德國統一日（10月3日）是星期五，那個長週末，趁嚴冬未至，我和另外三個中國人朋友決定到德國西南部的黑森林遊玩三天，來探我的澳洲朋友也有同行。 Of course we were not the only ones thinking of making use of the long weekend. Coupled with the amount of roadwork along the motorways (and it’s certainly quite a sight around Germany), it was no surprise that the first few hours of our journey was spent in traffic jams. The drive to our first destination of Baden-Baden took 5 hours – that’s excluding an hour of breakfast when we ended up in a service-station-cum-restaurant because the McDonald’s next door would not open till 9 a.m.! (I can get myself easily started on the topic of German opening hours …) 當然不少人也想把握那個長週末出門，加上公路沿途工程甚多（德國工程隨處是，永遠沒做完的一天！）所以未玩