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I've been missing Austria like crazy lately. I guess it's because it's been about a year since I first went there. I've noticed an attempt to try and recreate it. For instance, I bought muenster cheese at the store, along with an English cucumber. I've been eating cheese and cucumber and pepper sandwiches, which is what I ate a lot of in Innsbruck. The other day I was driving along US 52, and I saw the same logo as the Hoefer, a grocery store in Austria, so I pulled in to check it out. This store was called Aldi, but it was the same. They even had carts where you have to stick the quarter in to unchain it. I took particular delight in this. I wandered around looking for some imported food items, but didn't see anything familiar. And then when I went to Indy yesterday with some friends, we shopped at H&M. I kept expecting the sales associates to speak in German. I remember shopping there in Innsbruck and I was so proud of myself when I went to try some clothes on and told the associate that I had fünf. I was really blending in. They probably couldn't tell at all that I was American.