The only way I can describe today is the (sometimes) funny clash of cultures.
It started with breakfast with Timm selecting "Cafe Crema" on the machine, expecting Coffee with Cream. Not so, Cafe Crema is an old term for 'espresso'.
The Coffee without Cream
While at breakfast I had a bit of a blonde moment - trying to visit the bathroom I, for the life of me, couldn't open the damn door. It didn't seem to be locked but it just wouldn't open. Defeated I walked to the breakfast counter and enquired as to why the door wasn't opening. In typical dry german-ess, I was informed that it was a sliding door, and not a push door. Ooops!!!
Timm, having watched his wife embarrass herself, drily commented to the guy that clearly his "wife hadn't had enough breakfast if she was so weak that she couldn't open a restroom door".
Feeling insulted, the reply came back "Our breakfast is an open buffet, there should be no complaints that someone left hungry". He was decidedly unamused ......
Timm couldn't let it go (as usual) and had me draw pictures in German of the Inselaffen's attempt at a joke - he eventually got it and all was well in Deutschland again!
Escalator Protocol:
Everyone stand to the right, so people can pass on the left
At least we found a Laundromat (a real one ;-) and got some washing done. It was quite a dodgy one though with one guy blatantly stealing the toilet paper roll from the laundromat bathroom!!
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