{"id":5019,"date":"2015-09-25T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:24:15","slug":"brandfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"Brandfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s walk – at least 3 miles]<\/p>\n

After breakfast at the hotel today, we did some computer work and schedule planning.\u00a0 Then at 11 we met an internet friend for lunch and had a nice in-person conversation.<\/p>\n

After that we took the U-train up to near Museum Island.\u00a0 We visited three of the 5 national museum buildings. One was ancient greek stuff, one was 1700’s-1800’s paintings, and one was Mediterranean bronze-age stuff.<\/p>\n

We had heard about a chocolate shop between the museums and the hotel, so we walked that way.\u00a0 About 2 blocks from the chocolate shop we saw smoke coming from the basement of an office-type building<\/a>, about half a block on a cross street from where we were heading.\u00a0 People came streaming out and fire trucks arrived.\u00a0 There were a few people gathered at the corner, well away from the fire.\u00a0 But we could see flames coming out. One man in a small cluster of bystanders was calling out names and checking them off a list.\u00a0 I suspect it was a roll-call of employees.<\/p>\n

The firemen had the smokey part knocked down really quickly. We continued on to the chocolate shop.<\/p>\n

After delivering our chocolates to the hotel we took off again to visit the Octoberfest.\u00a0 That involved a long U-train ride and a short bus ride.\u00a0 The transfer from train to bus was a bit exciting.\u00a0 All over town there are cigarette\/ash-tray stations.\u00a0 They look like covered plastic trash cans mounted on telephone poles.\u00a0 Anyway, at the bus stop one of them was smoldering and then got pretty smokey.\u00a0 We got on the bus and left.<\/p>\n

Octoberfest was kind of like a smaller version of the Iowa State Fair midway with a couple of large beer tents.\u00a0 It was pleasant enough.\u00a0 We were there before dusk, so it was not terribly busy.\u00a0 I ate a brat and some french fries.\u00a0 They were good.\u00a0 I’m not much of a beer drinker but I guess I had about half of a “small” stein.\u00a0 Then we had a sweet at another stand, got on the bus again and took the U-train back home.<\/p>\n

Today’s German word is “Brandfall”, which is that situation where firetrucks need to be called and the elevator is not to be used.<\/p>\n

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