European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Review it was such a tasty Little nest egg by sgt. Ret Clement Lounder you Clu not have to Belo great Kreskin to notice thai life in Europe is no longer the blue1 Light special it once was what with the Economy thrashing and the Market crashing and the Dollar falling fatter than .1 sergeant major s Arches. Anh this is especially True for people like very Vern and me who live on fixed incomes in amounts to so Little in anal in fixed and who have got to tighten inc old drawstring when the Economy Heads for hell in the far Leil lint1 lint if we hive not lately been eating Mil in inc style to Whit it n i wive become accustomed it was not so the til her week when very Vern and me look in some Chow of the Palace Pumpin variety. Expensive How As it hurried out but paid Fortoul of a Little Neil egg Rny Gheil buddy and me set up while the Dollar was Strung when other folks were dash ing Oul and buying them big audis Wilh All the transmission problems. Our  Hack then was simple id save .1 few Bucks when in1 Fie Dollar tvs High and spent them when the i i in Brick had gone toilet City turning  might he Only a great meal into unbelievable tighten your Cheeks Blue banquet by paying for it Wilh half priced foreign currency. We i ill Altit our chortling in the very  � of disaster dinner. So. Ufier scanning an assortment of guides and Brt eing through that Tittle red Book the tire pop of put nut we sell led on the Erb Prinz near Karlsruhe a hotel restaurant operation that has been dispensing Fine ipod and drink since Aboul the time Button Gwinnel i was signing the american declaration. It is .1 dignified Lype place done up in real Pale shallot of preen set off Wilh some very thin lines of Gilt and decorated Wilh your occasional Ceramic oven and your modern Hainlin Portwo. The formality aside the waiters do their damnedest to make you feel comfortable even though Thev like the Lable Linen arc Han hed stiffer n West Point cadets on graduation Day. Fur diners a Lio like to look wound though a tip the Mam serving Giaffis backed up by a Loup i of Young waitresses who on the Day we visited were exhibiting More moving parts the Ina museum display of dam. Very Vern and me starter things off by plunking out t loan and Bead Lor if try print in fat Lingell near Kir Ruhf Germany for some my line eals. Ourselves Down Wilh menus and the wine card Ihnn ordered Puri couple of the daily aperitifs or of spa Riding wine and Grapefruit juice and dug into the Little snack the waiter showed up with a Gralis serving of the Erb Prini i famed truffle studded