This Is Not a Coat Rack

I guess one of the things that ticked him off was when we laid our coats on the seats of this adjacent booth. I think that's a serious no-no in Germany. He made us move them. Best of all was when he brought the bill after dinner. The total came out to something like 42 Euro so Gail gave him a 50 Euro note and a 2 Euro coin so that he could give us a full 10 in change. He took that and kept the 10 as his tip. Boy was he mad when Gail called him over and said he forgot to give us change. Tipping is included in the bill but diners usually let the waiter have the change left over after rounding up the bill. But there was no way this guy deserved a 25% tip.

South of the Border

February 17th 2012
You would think that after going 36 hours without sleep, except for a half hour snooze during Shakespeare on the plane, that I would've had a long night's rest once I climbed into bed. Yet I was up most of the night coughing my brains out. I assume I was allergic to the feather bed or some alien German mould in our room. I kept my poor mother awake as well. But when breakfast ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more

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