Ah, finally. I think the cold has more or less run its course. I'm
still coughing and sneezing but it feels more like clearing up what's
been built up rather than trying to hold back what's still coming.

Accordingly I was able to spend more time wandering today. One of
my big problems has been that my hotel didn't have universal plugs
(the one in Germany did) and the Europlug adapter I found yesterday
was straight-up broken. Since I was feeling better I went out further
to Datart(?) and got myself a proper plug adapter. I also got what
I thought was a micro-b cable to recharge my power bank, which has
been all that's kept my phone alive, but I accidentally bought a
mini-b cable instead. Luckily I have a few uses for those at home.

Got some rose hip tea as well. I've been drinking a lot of hot water
which helped with the congestion, but I imagine this will help even
more. Not a ton else going on, it's already 3 pm. I had a nice lunch,
a couple of coffees, baked goods, walked a few miles..probably time
to chill for now.

The chill was nice, I took a little nap I think while listening to
people play board games on youtube.

All the issues around plugs got me thinking about them. I thought
I'd quite like the Europlug design (and it is aesthetically pleasing)
but I don't quite like it as much in practice I think. The grounded
plug head is very bulky and it can be hard to fit appliances into
both of the plugs at an outlet at once (like in my hotel room,)
and the ungrounded version feels a bit weak/wobbly to me. The
appliance end also suffers from the UK plug's lego of death problem;
I wouldn't want to step on one. Incredibly rare win for the US
connector I guess?

Though I'd be curious how well the more elegant versions of
the europlug from Italy and Switzerland work. Those have inline
grounds which slim down the connector some. I've also never tried
the Australia/China plug which reminds me a bit of our 240V plugs
and is probably pretty good.

One of the interesting unexpected things here is that, you know,
as an American coming to Europe I expected a bunch of white people,
people from around the mediterranean like north africa and the middle
east, but there's a fair amount of an Asian population here too. A
lot of the convenience stores carry a few little Vietnamese things,
one of them was even named on the sign in both Czech and Vietnamese.
I wanna try and track down a restaurant tomorrow and see how good
that is.

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