5 July

This is the non-photo posting as we have a good net connection here. Will
upload the flickr pics later and include the cell phone pics later as well.

Perfect wandering Saturday in this city of large diversity. Just a pleasure
to see the mixture of cultures, countries, racial types, languages, foods of
course. This feels like a cosmopolitan European city, some thing we could
not say for much of our trip, with the obvious exceptions of Vienna and
Hamburg. The other big cities were interesting in their own ways but not as
cosmopolitan in feel.

Did the requisite visit to the big Dom, walked the old city, visited the
local stores, ate a Belgium waffle (they are everywhere, seeming to be more
prevalent than even the frites with mayo), visited the Saturday market and
sampled the wares. At a Turkish booth we bought what we can only describe
as a soft biscotti shaped like a roll and covered with little pieces of
almond on the outside. Could not understand the Turkish word he used so we
just bought it to try; good.

One severe weakness is the bread. The rolls for breakfast would have been
discarded in Germany. Good breakfast in the same style as Germany just
without and good rolls and only a few types of darker breads. When we
strolled the city we did not find any bread shops; in every German local
there was a bread shop within a radius of 100m, we visited 1247 of them (yes
I kept count).

Off to eat Moules Frites, pictures to follow.

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