The closest grocery store, shown below, is about a 10 minute walk away and seems to mainly service Polish and Russian immigrants. There is some sort of Russian mail drop-off at the entrance. We are challenged enough trying to parse the German, but reading the Polish and Russian labels on the foodstuffs was an angle we didn't expect!
However, we did manage to put together our first meal, complete with Italian wine and Polish sausage.
We've since discovered more shopping possibilities. The main area is called Uni-Center and is right at/near the university. It's about a 20min walk to the centre and another 5 minutes after that to the university proper. Between us and Uni-Center is a densely forested park with many trails. We think we've finally figured out the right trails to take us most directly across but we wondered whether we should drop crumbs behind us just in case we couldn't find our way back. Judith calls it the 'grey forest' -- It's not quite black but pretty close.
Here is our building. It's always easy to find the right building if there's an observatory on top.
Our names are already on the outside of the office and we have nice big desks.
The university has many options for food. Here is one.
Downtown Bochum has a few artistic and historical surprises. Again, there are lots of places to eat. All stores are closed on Sunday, though, except for gas stations and eateries of all sorts. Yesterday (which was Sunday) we drove downtown and ended up diverted due to either a demonstration or a race or both.
According to our reading, Charlemagne had an imperial palace on the site of one of the downtown churches. This area has been known for coal mining and apparently there is the largest mining museum in the world here, a place that could be fun to visit.
We are starting to work hard now. After this week there are 3 solid weeks of meetings and we both must give talks.
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