A Walk

 I ended up yesterday in the city (Wiesbaden) on a hair-cutting 'mission'.  Yes, I'd gone almost seven months without a legit haircut, and the wife finally said enough with my self-cut attempts.

So to get a haircut with the new rules....you have to take a Covid-19 test (free of charge within my village...but only 1 per week), and the paperwork they provide is only good for the next day (saying you were negative).

The haircut went on as scheduled.  You have to agree to a wash, and the mask has to stay on for the entire time.  

So I had around an hour to walk through the shopping district of Wiesbaden.  What I'll generally say?  

It's kinda 'dead'.  Maybe a third of the normal foot-traffic (from 2019).  

Various stores are 'click-and-meet' situations....meaning you only get in if you have a scheduled appointment with a clerk.

There's probably around thirty storefronts which are shutdown entirely, and up for rent.  

My favorite coffee shop?  'Perfect Day'? Permanently shutdown.  The owner admitted about seven weeks ago...the end, and admitted several hundred-thousand Euro had been lost in attempting to keep the shop open in the Covid period.  On a typical pre-Covid afternoon, you could walk into the second floor seating area and find forty people sipping coffee and in conversation.  I would have rated this shop as the best coffee shop of the town, and a long-step down to the number two/three shop.  

Eating fast-food take-out?  Well....you need to find a park bench for that.

If you were expecting anything compared to 2019....you won't find it.