Hello Walkers,
It's a new month and a new walk. This time I have gone for a walk around an out-of-town shopping center and taken some photos to show you. Quite a bit has changed in the last two years and this is the first time I've been there for a while as I generally don't go shopping but had some errands to run this time.
After parking the car in the huge car park facing the motorway, we headed into the shopping center. Going on Saturday used to be a big no-no for me because it was always totally rammed and I'm not keen on huge crowds of people and so much busyness. This is one reason that I moved out to the countryside near the middle of nowhere!
Upon entering we were confronted with this big "Life is a wheel of fortune". You can spin the wheel and see where it lands. Some of the options available are "Geduld" - patience, "Mut" - courage, "Kraft" - strength and "Liebe" - love.
Comming to this shopping center is a pleasure in comparison to some city center ones that you can go to because the car park is huge, well laid out and there are so many lifts and stairs for easy access to everywhere. You don't have to wait around. Oh, and the parking is free.
As we enter you can see that it is practically empty! It is already lunchtime and there aren't too many people about. We go first to the food court area and there are a few more people there, but not too many. A typical "local" offering is Best Worscht in Town. I think this means Best Sausage in Town. They do love their sausages here.
I order a veggie curry that I had been craving for a while. My wife decided to help me with the naan bread, so I needed to order a second one!
There are many vacant spots that have been filled with activities for people to do. Here is one filled with a table football.
My wife went to look at some shops with my daughter so I took my son to the two playgrounds. The first one above is an airplane that he got bored of quite quickly as it was for younger kids. We needed to walk to the other side of the shopping center to the other one now.
The lower one was more fun for him as you need to climb quite high and then slide down. This kept him busy for a while. There were also some electronic gadgets to play with and some pay-to-use rides.
As I was waiting, I took this photo which I had planned to enter the Hive reflections contest on. It is another boarded-up shop with black mirror doors. You can't see the black mirror too well in the photo, but it had a cool reflective effect.
After my son got bored playing, we continued on and found another former shop converted into a car display with real cars and some model cars.
If I was a few years younger, I could picture myself driving them. lol. We were finally re-united with the ladies to our party and decided to head home.
We walked back to the car park and I also took a photo of the view. We were not so high up, therefore it was not so impressive as it can be. I realised looking back now that I only ordered some food and didn't actually visit any of the shops there. lol.
Thanks for reading.
Credits:
All photos are my own.
Clip art added from Canva source and source and source and source