Welcome to USMB, Kruska. Hope you enjoy the boards. Germany is such a beautiful and industrial land, and we visited I loved the intricate woodworks I saw everywhere--like a masterpiece in wood everywhere you went. That takes steady hands and a very intelligent brain to create such beauty. And the German cuisine is as good as it gets anywhere on earth. You must have missed the place if you were gone 20 years. The Pfaff sewing machine people treated us to 2 different trips there for our sales. It wasn't hard for me, because as a very young woman, I sewed in a factory, and the Pfaffs are all the company would buy for their world class Catalina clothing and swimwear lines in Fullerton, California.