far-flung kin

ok, so...my sons will meet up with more far-flung kin....outside of vienna.....cousins to the folks we met up with in lambsheim a few years back...my parents traveled there to visit when i was still in graduate school.....and so they emailed kind greetings to my mother.....the email was in german, of course.....thankfully somebody on this trip will have a clue was is being said......