Temple, Day 1

The white trousers I usually wear in the temple have miraculously turned too small around the waist, so I rented a pair here.

I went through several pairs before I found one that fit—a 38" waist, 30" leg pair. (32" would have been better, but they only had 30" and 34", and 34" was just too long.

Went to the restaurant Paprika (which belongs to a Hungarian family) and reserved a table for Thursday at 12:30.

After lunch, a young couple joined us at our table—Robin and Maria Feith with their five-month-old son Jonas. We had a very nice conversation. (They knew Elaine.)

What a difference sentence accent makes!

We went to Bachs this evening and used Daddy's Garmin navigation aid to find the way.

The quality of the German voice output was variable: for one thing, it had only one canned segment to translate "kilometres", which it would use regardless of whether the sentence required dative ("Nach fünf Kilometern rechts abbiegen") or accusative (*"Noch fünf Kilometern fahren, dann links abbiegen").

However, it was its misuse of sentence accent in one segment that genuinely confused me: it stressed "...dann rechts halten" as "...dann rechts hálten" (then stop on the right-hand side) rather than as "...dann réchts halten" (then keep to the right, e.g. stay in the right-hand lane).