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Our bed (at least we had a mattress), complete with airline blankets and wadded up clothing as pillows. =) After a confusing early-morning flight out of lreland (fueled by leftover Chinese food) we arrived in Frankfurt, Germany around 10 am. Next challenge: find Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe is the city where Brittany's new apartment is located. The problem? We didn't know the address of the apartment. Problem number two: almost everything in Germany is closed on Sunday and Monday was a holiday. When we were at our hotel in Ireland we were curious as to how we planned on getting food, blankets, pillows, etc. The only food we had on us was spaghetti and snickers bars. We joked that at a minimum, we could boil the spaghetti in the hotel coffee maker and make snickers pasta to take with us for our first few days in Germany.
Fortunately, we didn't have to resort to such measures, as when we arrived on our train to Karlsruhe, the station had an open market of fruits and vegetables... a welcome change from the bread, cheese and crackers that had been sustaining us for the past few days. =)
While we were at the train station, we found a book store that was also open. Brittany got a normal novel. I got a second-grade
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After living off of cheese and crackers for the past week, real food was amazing! level learning book: Nick Nase auf der Saurierspur (Nick Nose on the Dinosaur Track). I'm trying to pick up some of the German language and the woman at the bookstore recommended I start with something that German children would use to learn the language and learn how to read. I felt really silly getting a second-grade level book when I am in law school in the states, but hopefully, this will further my language abilities and be a fun little detective story too!
We found an Internet cafe and luckily, Brittany's flat-mates had emailed her the address of the apartment. We arrived with all of our packs (and sore, but very relieved, shoulders) and were immediately greeted by Britt's flat-mate, Matias. He offered to cook us dinner (which we were stoked about) while we went and explored the town a bit. We found the main marketplace and a castle that is situated about a mile away from the apartment. On our walk back, we decided it would be a nice gesture to bring back some dessert, but everything was closed. The was a lone Subway open and I jokingly suggested we get cookies. Brittany informed me that apparently, it
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Mmmmmmm.... is rare to find chocolate chip cookies in Germany and that it would probably be a great treat to bring some back. Who knew?
After dinner, we settled down and unpacked our massive amount of stuff. We still had no pillows and only the airline blankets to keep us warm, so using our Aer Lingus blankets and random clothing items for pillows would have to suffice for the next few days. That being said, Brittany's new place is great and the town she is living in is a great and beautiful town where everything is pretty central for her.
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So how is the dinosaur book coming along? Maybe you can read it to me when you get home. I'd be impressed!