Running Errands and Exploring

May 27, Friday. The day after a Thursday holiday is a ‘bridge day’; many people take that day off. Logan worked from home. We did walk to the bakery, bought bread and a doughnut and a couple of things that look like slices of cakes. Had breakfast on the balcony.

I have had the hardest time getting & staying online. It took a few tries until the user name/password to the account would work (and this was over a few days.) Yesterday, it appeared as if my laptop had expired. We thought it was the power supply. Not sure how to find out if this is the problem. If we were at home, Logan would have had a voltmeter. Oh well.

In the afternoon, we took the car into a few new places in town. We wanted to open a bank account, credit cards are not widely accepted here, you need a EuroCard, or EC. So we drove off to the local Dresdner Bank branch. Hmm, closed for lunch. OK, we’ll go to the local Apple store up the street, to buy a printer. Closed for lunch. By now, the bank was due to be open so we went back there. It was open, but we were told that there was no one available to open an account. Could we call on Monday to set up an appointment? … OK, sure. Don’t take our money! Found the OBI, which looks a lot like Home Depot. We went also to Tech Mart, for electronics. There we discovered that it was a good thing that we hadn’t opened the bank account, because Tech Mart only takes EC or cash. So all the cash that we would have used to open the account went to a DVD player and a ‘universal’ power supply instead. We stopped at the Apple store on the way back, and ordered a printer.

Hurray! The Luggage Concierge and DHL people have worked it so that the bikes are considered duty-free! They will be delivered sometime on Monday.