20 June: HOTEL ESPRIT in Halle is advertised as small three-star with pub/restaurant below. I walk through a small roof top garden to get to unit #7, a small, cozy, bright room with single bed, desk, TV, and well-stocked bookshelf (German, of course). Being on the other side of the deck in what looks like an addition constructed above the restaurant's storage area, gives me added privacy. However, there isn't a phone, fridge or microwave oven as I had in Estonia, and the internet capability it had advertised doesn't exist. "The buildings down the street all have WiFi, but not here; even our business is on dial-up internet," is all the explanation I get. This town was rocking with the pulsating rhythms of African, Asian and Latin American percussion last night. Theater der Welt got its
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