August 29, 2008
Germany seems very organized, civilized
and BORING. It does have some advantages over Casablanca however.
Everyone seems well behaved and you can tell that is a western
society. The houses and gardens are well cared for. The people seem
ok, but lack the kind of energy that you might see in Spain or
Morocco.
Today I tried to change some Euro cash
into travellers cheques. I thought this might be a fairly simple
process here, but I was wrong. I visited six different banks and
they all told me that they did not offer this service anymore.
Hmmmmm....German efficiency. No problem, I went back to Detlef and
Sabine's place to look up American Express on the internet. After a
few phone calls we found a bank in town that could help. Detlef and
I hopped on the BMW 1200 motorcycle and went to the bank. They said
it would not be a problem. No worries it all ended up well.
My other highlight was when they let me
drive their little car on the Autobahn. It was kind of like driving
in Canada only just a bit faster. I also spent a lot of time walking
around.
