Late night TV

We have "Girls Gone Wild" commercials at night but Germany has things that would make GGW pale in comparison. All I can say is female bodies together with oil or soap. It does show a difference between our cultures.

A late start

I didn't manage to get the internet started in the apartment until this evening. I'll just say that I had the landlord's daughter and her boyfriend come over to point out that I wasn't using upper case letters when I should have. German word of the day "peinlich" = embarassing I'm going to blame the whole incident on jet lag.



Just a fun point, as soon I buy my first German beer to enjoy this evening, Mrs D comes down with severe heartburn. It was brought on by store bought bratwursts that Mr D and I enjoyed. This is about 20:40 (8:40 pm). I drive back to the grocery store and they have nothing that will be of use. Before the search is over, I will learn that:



Grocery stores don't have general meds like antiacids and things like that.


The train station with a great convenience store closes before 9:00.


Gas stations with mini markets don't stock any common remedies either but if you ask they point you around the corner to the largest grocery store in Worms.

In fact, this place was the biggest grocery store I've ever seen in Germany. I had to ask a series of employees to find the right part of the store. In the end they had one thing for heartburn. I bought it and returned home after taking a couple of scenic detours (getting lost).

In the end, I looked the item up on the internet and found that it was basic baking soda in tablet form. Mrs D took one with a glass of water and she's is now better.

I'm now on my 4th beer and all is well.

There's a new rule here. Nobody gets sick after the drug stores close.

Sorry there are no pics yet but I'll try to fix that tomorrow.