Just to Clarify . . .

As exotic as it may (or may not) sound to travel to 3 countries in 1 day, we are generally going to either explore the area so we know what is around us or to look specifically for a product. For instance, we heard one can buy brown sugar in France. So we went to Saint-Louis today, which is about a 40 minute bus/tram ride. We did not succeed in finding brown sugar, but we did find liquid vanilla. However, we brought a bottle of vanilla with us, but no brown sugar. Keep in mind the previous post where we talk about staring at aisles of products trying to decipher them and decide if it's what we need. Today, we spent time trying to decipher 2 languages (French and German) and calculating several currencies. The Euro is about one-third more than the dollar and the Swiss franc is about 60-65% of the Euro. I think you get the idea of why it takes us so long to shop for things! But we are very successful in translating "Chocolate'', so we usually include a purchase of chocolate to help us recuperate from the confusion of shopping!