Roxy-Kino

Way down in the south end of Nürnberg is a little two-screen movie theatre that shows “foreign-language” films—the Roxy-Kino. Usually this means English, but I’ve seen ads for Indian and Arabic films there too. It really is a small, out of the way place. There’s nothing else to do in the neighborhood, so it’s a destination rather than a spontaneous thing. The seats are so close to the screen that you have to sit in the back row to keep from breaking your neck!
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Ransoming the dog (Part One)

The flight from Atlanta to Frankfurt takes almost 9 hours—not counting check in, airport security, boarding, customs, baggage claim… you get the idea. We arrived at the Atlanta airport around 3 pm after dropping off Siggy at the cargo terminal in his crate (complete with paperwork and all) and took off at 6 pm. So with the flight and time change, it was around 9 am in Frankfurt when we arrived. I didn’t sleep well on the plane, so I’d been up since 6 am the day before. We had to be in Nürnberg before 6pm in order to pay our deposits and pick up the keys for our apartment so we had somewhere to sleep that night.
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