It was indeed a beautiful place - all 10,000 square feet of it! Originally it was a "ferienwohnung" (vacation house) with seven apartments that were rented out by the week/month to Dutch tourists who come to the Eifel region to get away from the table top flatlands of Holland (as you can see in the pic, the land is pretty steep) and for for the excellent hiking, fishing, and fast driving! My landlord was the architect (Dipl.-Ing.FH Gisela Thiel) who built it and her office was in the apartment upstairs on the third floor. I had the entire second floor (about 3,800 sq ft) and an older German couple had the bottom floor. She has subdivided it again by splitting the floors into two apartments each, and now has five families living in it. We all had a great time... especially hanging out with the volunteer fire department guys, which was basically a drinking club. Here is the view out my bedroom window looking down to where the other pic was taken from (now you can understand why I don't like Phoenix):
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I'm crusty like sea salt, only crustier... unless you're talking about that store bought stuff, that stuff's not crusty at all...