Sausage vending machine and surprisingly thin clothes

When I was walking back to my hotel I passed sausage vending machine. Very German, I guess.

I also passed a shop selling clothes that looked like they would be quite cold in the fairly bad autumn weather.

Turkish food

On the last day in Germany, my boss went with the other bosses to dinner at some expensive place and I found myself alone. I walked to the closest village and found a place serving Turkish food. The food was good. There was a very drunk German soccer supporter sitting nearby who kept talking very loudly to me in German despite me trying to explain that I do not actually speak German. I think there had been a soccer game nearby with some famous team and that he had been to see that game, but what he actually was asking me I never understood.

German food

The German business trip was full of stress (the people we cooperate with had not built the stuff they were supposed to have built, my boss decided we needed to build some new stuff with short notice, the presentations were long and not that relevant to me, etc. etc.) and it did not help that everyone back in Japan had a five day holiday and kept posting updates on how much fun they were having, haha.

Breakfast

One thing that was great in Germany was the food, though. The breakfast and lunch buffets were very good. Lots of food that you cannot find in Japan but that was similar to Swedish food. I ate way too much.

Lunch

Bread! Japanese "pan" (which is often translated as "bread") is good but it is not very similar to European bread.

This was some weird bone marrow ball soup that I was told was a local specialty.

The thing on the right was some form of wheat based porridge, perhaps? Some local specialty.

Chocolate banana cake, served at breakfast

More bread!

A room with a view

View in nice weather

View in bad weather

I got a hotel room in Germany that was larger than my apartment in Japan. The view was nice too. Except most of the days it was either raining so heavily that you could not see more than a few meter or so foggy that you could not see anything.

My balcony was nice the few moments it was not raining

The hotel was located on top of a hill and you had a good view but you also had a good walk to the closest convenience store or restaurant. And in the evening, the road was a bit dark and it was easy to get lost.

The road leading from the convenience store to the hotel