We had an emergency evacuation at the Holiday Inn Hauptbahnhof an hour or so ago. No one from the staff or the fire department came to help me slide down six floors of stairs, from the top floor. Finally, a family of fellow Californians came to my rescue.

The alarm was supposedly triggered by someone's shower steam, and I was assured if it had been a true emergency, I would have been "the first to be evacuated". Hmmm, that's nice to know now, but would have been even better to know when I was alone in the stairwell.

Anyway, I asked to be moved, but supposedly nothing is available. After I calm down, I may need to take an antihistamine to get sleepy. [sigh]