A Few of My Favorite Things
Grüße, Freunde! Greetings, Friends! I have now been in Hamburg for three and a half weeks. It's been a whirlwind since I got here. The first couple of days were spent recovering from the flight over here from Baltimore. After that, Clarke began showing me around our neighborhood. We visited all of the stores he had been shopping at prior to my arrival so I could become familiar with them and start to learn how shopping in Germany works. One of the differences that I appreciate here is that the grocery stores sell alcohol, something unheard of in Baltimore. Even when we lived in Houston, we could only buy beer and wine at the grocery stores. For anything else, we had to go to a liquor store. One of the differences here which I'm still getting used to is that there are drug stores ( Drogerien ), and there are pharmacies ( Apotheken ). You can't buy drugs at the drug store - those are only sold at an Apotheka. The "drug" stores are more like variety stores (think of ...