Aachen: Miscellaneous Events

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As I'm spending my last night in Aachen, here're my two last-minute tidbits from today:

1. Aachen Cathedral
   Visitors are free to go inside the church. However, one has to pay for two Euros in order to take pictures — tripods are not allowed but flash is. After paying, one will get a ticket that is valid on the next visit.
   
   
   Hm, now I'm wondering if the "next visit" actually means "subsequent visits". If it does, then I need to preserve my ticket in case of a tiny possibility to revisit this city in the future. Yeah, I do have a bit of "mental dagang" (i.e. an extremely calculating mentality).


2. Diet cookies
   In a shop selling chocolate cookies, I picked a box of a chocolate cookies (how obvious). When I was about to pay, the lady shopkeeper pointed to the word "Diät" on the box and said something like "this is for diet". I was quite puzzled at first and had to ask whether the "diet" means "for those who want to lose weight"! Which apparently does!! Which then made me to quickly replace with another brand, plus a couple of other choices, and then left (after paying, of course).
   
   Later on, I made this guess on why the diet-cookies reminder: it is because of my excellent physique — I who am not in the slightest need of losing weight! Whether this turns to be true or not, a danke to the shopkeeper is in order. Otherwise I may be getting slimmer after consuming those diet cookies.