InContinent - Welcome to San Francisco

InContinent- Dispatches from Europe: Amerika in Europe - Welcome to San Francisco

Here's another first in a series from InContinent- America sightings.

So, there I was minding my own business, walking the streets of the small city of Aalen (which means Eels by the way, are they jellied or unagi?) I’m walking back to the train station only to ask my self: have I been transported back home? Why that’s the Golden Gate Bridge?!

Then comes ”The Hammer” as the Germans say: you can buy it! I’ve heard about good deals on the Brooklyn Bridge. But not The Golden Gate Bridge.

I’m feeling at home already!

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