Germany Day 25 - Saturday, Jan 31

Here are a couple of pictures of the wall built circa 1340 of this hotel.

Got caught up on emails this AM. Folks back at work are probably noticing that my attitudes are changing. There's depot guys and there's field guy and then there are mixed up guys like me!!

Skipped lunch on account of I was not hungry - one piece of German bread at breakfast apparently did the trick.

I found out there is a hot springs here. The Weidener Thermenwelt right next to the indoors ice skating rink. The hot springs has a big slide with a nice sorta black light section. (Its enclosed, but does empty into the warm outdoor part of the pool.) I went on the slide 4 times -- that was fun. You have to change in a sorta common locker room where they have these tiny changing booths, then you lock you stuff up. Then you go into the men's or women's shower room, then off to the main pool area.

I extra paid for the sauna. For the sauna here you get nude (both guys and girls, so its sorta nudist) then there are various ways to cool off - a luke warm hot top, chips of ice, wacky cave rooms, very cold pool (leading outside), or just walk outside. I just figured the sauna dried me off, and, being a Florida boy, I don't really like the cold, so I just left without getting wet again. Interesting thing though - the sauna was so dry, I got fairly hot without ever sweating. (For those who don't know, my Indian name is "sweats like a pig".

Had dinner at a Mexican restruarant and it took FOREVER. Not that it was that Mexican - spare ribs (no sauce), chicken wings (no sauce), a veggie burrito (sucatash in it - peas, carrots, string beans - yeah, just like the mexicans cook it). Well at least the beer and margaritas are good.

If you want to dress like a German lady, get blue jeans (reasonably tight fitting, but these aren't Italian's), dark boots that come up to your knee, and a dark jacket, preferable leather. I don't really see much of the red German tourist hair, but the hair stylists are very prominent and there is a lot of two tone stuff.

More pictures of hotel and Weiden