OK, that’s a fairly obscure reference. It refers to the Mitch Hedberg routine where he tries to get some bread for a duck at a Subway sandwich shop. They try to charge him until they find out the bread is for a duck. Apparently they have free bread for ducks. Look the routine up, it’s funny.

So Day 2 was all about getting to Leipzig, which we have done. It was a long flight, but without problems. Just long. The schedule is almost evil. You lose nine hours on the way over. But because the flight leaves at 2pm Pacific Time and takes ten hours, the nine hours you lose include all of the hours you would normally sleep. So we’re dead on our feet.

We tried to find a gluten-free (gluten-frei in German) dinner options but struck out until we saw the Subway sandwich shop at the train station. You can always get the contents of any of their subs as a salad instead of a sandwich. But… Germany is having a big e-coli scare right now and you’re not supposed to eat lettuce, tomatoes or cucumbers. And maybe not sprouts. They aren’t sure.

So we asked for a tuna salad sub as a salad, but with no lettuce, no tomatoes, etc. They discussed it among themselves and for some reason decided they could not do it. We eventually talked them into it, but it all could have been simpler if we had just said… it was for a duck.

This picture is from Day 1, but the two seem like one to us. It shows how much room you get in business class.

They advertise a 2m bed. I’m 6’ plus a little, but I somehow am longer than their 2m bed. iPads really rock for this kind of travel!