Digital air pumps! Vacuum cleaners! Good bread, busy cafes.

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Breakfast at the Hauptbahnhoff; some bread, fruit and excellent coffee.  Even though it was in a food market area we could not sit and eat as vendors were protective of their seating and we purchased a bit from several of them.  People watching made up for the lack of seating.
 
Assembled the bikes and then took a ride to a gas station to pump up the tires.  This being Germany there were more stations to vacuum clean your car than there were actual gas pumps.   In addition there was a digital air pump.  Set the desired pressure in bar, press ok, and voila, it fills, maybe overfills a bit and releases some until it settles down to the exact pressure; the US is  falling behind in air pumps at gas stations – certainly another overlooked efffect of the harsh Bush years. Most gas stations in the US now charge for air!

The weather turned perfect, literally, as Boog Sacking Team has arrived.  Seems as if everyone who was ambulatory wandered along the river, the Main.  Busy cafes, konditori sold out. Lunch was a place called MoscheMosche, a good Japanese-style ramen and other noodle place, a small chain that is only in this part of Germany.

We learned the word for "stale" (fade") when we asked the waiter in the hotel about how to say the word we wished to use to describe the bread we were served. He caught on after a bit and insisted the bread was fresh (customer is always wrong); indeed, it may have been when it was sliced eight hours before. Eventually we obtained new bread, and it was quite good. Perhaps he mistook us for British and thought we would not make a fuss. Thanks to Bush, we American tourists must struggle to get our Euro's worth.

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