Auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland

Well, it's not September 20, 2022 for real, but rather sometime later. We never went out to eat that night in Cologne. Herr Hai wasn't hungry, and I was too tired. I had a miserable sleep, tired but unable to rest. Coughing. (Uh oh, in these plague times we know what that might mean).

We ate breakfast at the buffet at the hotel, which cost extra. Nice buffet, unfortunately, on the way out of the room, I was sick. We picked up some sort of fish shaped pretzels in the train station, and when we got through security at Frankfurt, a Sprite.

Terrible flight home, double masked with one of those duck bill N-95s. I felt so terrible, but unable to sleep, I managed to watch the entire Godfather movie (never saw it, just read the books), and doze. How I managed to get through immigration and etc, no idea. Went right to sleep when we got home.

Tested next day. Yep, I had the Corona 19. No one else got it, and I was fine in a few days. One more day of moderate coughing, but mostly fatigue and inability to really sleep, with really bizarre and intense dreams.

Overall, trip was a success. I wish we had spent more time in places, gone slower, but that wasn't possible. We also weren't sure if we'd even like Germany. I know I sound like a crazy Germanophile in the posts but I was a little meh on it to be honest when I started doing research for that Christmas Market trip, despite the family connection, my other writing, my research in college and teaching. Definitely want to return, and now there are a lot of places I found we'd like to visit.

So get ready. Next time, definitely Christmas markets.Læs mere