re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One downside of life in Germany: today, May 1st is a public holiday. Which means that almost all shops are closed, but most folks don’t have an extra day off.

Germany does not move weekend holidays to the following Monday.

Our local bakery is open, but by law only for three hours, so good thing I was up and out early today.

Thanks for the information on Walpurgis you posted last night! I found it quite interesting.

The closest thing I saw while growing up in Pittsburgh were attempts by kids to prank on the night before Halloween. (So called “Devil’s Night”.) Needless to say, nobody was smart or organized enough to do much beyond smearing some soap on random car windows and in one or two cases “toilet papering” somebodies front yard trees.