Café/bar update

At Dottendorf, a few changes have been underway. The café/bar, which is a beautifully detailed Pola kit, includes an outdoor seating area. There were a couple of problems with the previous arrangement; the Pola chairs and tables were somewhat delicate (although they'd survived a decade outside) and cleaning around them was awkward (because they were stuck down to stop the blackbirds destroying them). Consequently the area tended to fill up with garden detritus that was difficult to remove and resulted in breakages to the "furniture".

But it looked too bleak with no furniture at all. I toyed with getting some more substantial furniture from Bertram Heyn, or with posing the little diorama that I already have there. The diorama, seen also in the post below, looked good, but is way too delicate to leave out all the time.

So a new diorama has come into being, one that should be able to stay outside all the time, but can be removed for detritus removal as and when necessary.

Using the Pola furniture - which after all has survived this long - and some strips of cobblestones, it's an insert that fits under the gazebo. We'll see how it goes and whether any additional detailing is worthwhile, but it certainly looks more café like with some seating, and as the lockdown in Germany and Austria is easing, we'll need somewhere to sit, won't we?