If you’re ever in Cologne, stop by the Chocolate Museum. It’s pretty small, so it can be done in an hour or two, depending on how long you stay in the chocolate shop when you’re done.

Inside the museum, they have a small production line set up that churns out little bit-sized bars of Lindt chocolate. You get one with your admission ticket. Here’s a video of some of it.

A taste of Germany, as made available by Top Food & Drug.

From Left to Right:

• St. Pauli Girl Lager
• Paulaner Oktoberfest Märzen Amber
• Paulaner Salvator Double Bock
• Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
• Bitburger
• Ayinger Ur-Weisse Dunkel Wiezen
• Hofbräu Original
• Hofbräu Hefe Weizen
• Optimator Spaten
• Hirschbräu Bavarian-Weissbier Hefeweise
• Hirschbräu Dopple-Hirsch Bavarian Dopplebock
• Schlink Haus Spätlese Nahe
• Neuschwanstein Castle Riesling

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Carol and I go to Starbucks a bit too often, but it’s a nice walk after dinner and the baristas there are nice–one even donated a kidney to a customer! In any case, it looks like we’ll be able to keep post-prandial over-priced coffee tradition alive in Heidelberg. There are two Starbucks on the main drag through the old town.

I found a picture of one by subscribing to the feed of pictures tagged “Heidelberg” on Flickr.

The word finally came, and we’re going to be moving to Heidelberg. It’s a relief to finally know (and totally excellent that we got our first choice), but my first thought was, “Holy crap, we’re moving to Germany. What were we thinking?” That passed quickly, though, and now I just want to head to the library and pick up some more German language CDs.

We don’t really have any firm details yet as to where exactly we’ll live or when exactly we’ll be moving, but now we can at least start getting ready.

Anyone want to buy a house in Tacoma?