{"id":172,"date":"2008-11-11T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-10-05T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:11:15","slug":"my-favorite-store-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/my-favorite-store-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite: Store in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our aim with these My Favorite:<\/strong><\/em> posts is to give our well-traveled Explorica employees a chance to share some of their favorite travel experiences with all of you.<\/p>\n

We’ll be doing two My Favorites<\/strong><\/em> this week, and first up is Tom O’Grady.\u00a0 Take it away, Tom…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My favorite store in all of Germany is…The Kaufhof<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

A few years back, I had the chance to go to Germany to see the US play in the World Cup.\u00a0 I spent three weeks traveling through Germany, following the team and the sport that I love. I spent a lot of time in Munich and became a regular in the Marienplatz <\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the three weeks I was there, I saw just about every part of Munich, and many days I had some time to kill before the games would start at night<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, I discovered that due to the heightened number of tourists, many restaurants and shops were inflating their prices to take advantage of the World Cup traffic.\u00a0 I was not going to fall victim!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I discovered the Kaufhof<\/strong>.\u00a0 Its kind of a one stop super-department store.\u00a0 Picture a Macy\u2019s with a cafeteria\/restaurant on the top floor and a supermarket in the basement.<\/p>\n

I literally found everything I needed right there–and due to the fact that locals shop there, the prices weren\u2019t affected as much.\u00a0 To escape the sun, I wandered through the multiple floors, checking out everything European, from clothes<\/a>, to music<\/a>, to electronics<\/a>, to the different kinds of snack foods<\/a> they eat.\u00a0 I also got many of my World Cup souvenirs<\/a> there as well.\u00a0 They have great prices on many of the things you\u2019d find on the streets.<\/p>\n

If that weren\u2019t enough, when I\u2019d get hungry I could go up to the cafeteria and get a great serving of wiener schnitzel and french fries<\/a>, washed down with a cool orange Fanta (the European version). You\u00a0 can eat at a fraction of the cost of a restaurant, and you\u2019ll be sitting in a bright, air conditioned room where you can sit for as long as you’d like.<\/p>\n

And the best point of all about the Kaufhof\u2026\u2026free restrooms<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Sure… they do ask you for a small donation to the cleaner, which is normal in Europe, but you get to use a perfectly clean bathroom that is not known by many tourist.\u00a0 Plus, you\u2019ll get to impress your fellow travelers with your behind the scenes knowledge.<\/p>\n

Buon viaggio!<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our aim with these My Favorite: posts is to give our well-traveled Explorica employees a chance to share some of their favorite travel experiences with all of you. We’ll be doing two My Favorites this week, and first up is Tom O’Grady.\u00a0 Take it away, Tom… My favorite store in all of Germany is…The Kaufhof! Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[24,8],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-germany","tag-my-favorite","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}