Chapter 43: LaurenTwo days later Lauren got her first view of the German countryside. With her dad doing better, Silke felt she didn’t need to be in Augsburg every second. Her mom had lent her the family car and there they were: on the Autobahn, which looked disappointingly like any other road Lauren had ever seen. Not only was traffic heavy, there were speed limit signs everywhere contradicting the myth of Germans practically flying when they drove.
After their excursions to downtown Augsburg with all its historic buildings, the scenery passing by was only marginally interesting. Fields and trees, the occasional houses in the distance nearly obscured by the rain that had been falling steadily since early morning—everything looked grey and cold. And wet.
Lauren shivered and pulled her ja
