Monday, August 13, 2012
Breakfast in the hotel room from groceries: spelt flakes, lowfat milk (1.8%), hazelnut yogurt, fruity juice, 2 bananas. Got to the airport and realized that I missed my flight out of CGN because I remembered the wrong time to be at the airport. For some reason I had remembered the arrival time in AMS (7:25 AM) rather than the departure time from CGN (6:25 AM) and consequently arrived at CGN an hour late. A woman at the KLM counter helped me reschedule my flight. I returned to my hotel hoping they still had space, and they did. Instead of spending another day of activities in Cologne, I decided to try to get on a Pacific time sleeping schedule and slept for 7 hours. Woke at 3 PM. Tested new internet credentials: first test = 230 down / 1077 up, second test = 734 down / 1941 up. Tried to buy Danny underwear that he wanted, but the store wasn't open even though I think the store hours sign said that they should be open. Snack at Kamps: egg sandwich, fruity water: 3.75 euros. Haircut at Arson Hair from Jessy: 16 euros before a 2-euro tip. She uses a different method than I usually use, but it will suffice. Back to the hotel. Speed test with Spotflux disabled: 5246 down / 2021 up. Speed test with Spotflux enabled: 670 down / 906 up. Speed test with Spotflux disabled: 1478 down / 959 up. Speed test with Spotflux enabled: 209 down / 198 up. Speed test with Spotflux enabled: 851 down / 305 up. Speed test with Spotflux disabled: 694 down / 550 up. Uploaded photos to Flickr. Dinner by myself at Moyos, a New Orleans diner: 2 cheeky strawberry drinks (strawberry, mint, lime, havana), multiseed wheat mini baguette with creole sauce, fish soup, coconut shrimp: 24.70 euros, and I rounded up to 26 euros. Soup: tomato bisque with one prawn, lots of shrimp, 3 mussels, and chunks of fish. Beignets were more like popcorn shrimp than beignets.