Dave and I walked to a local grocery<\/a> this morning to pick up food for the apartment. As always, we thoroughly enjoyed seeing the differences in foods (and prices) compared to other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25 July 22: After yesterday’s shenanigans, we have now figured out how public transportation is going to look from our apartment (numerous closures this week near us, both the S-Bahn and the trams are unavailable). 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