Hanging Out at the Mall

Yep, you read that correctly! There are malls in Europe. Often we have the stereotypical image of quaint European streets lined with boutiques. A shop where everybody knows your name because you’re a regular customer. While this is still very true, out in the suburbs there are larger groceries, chain stores, and a mall or two.

Now mind you the mall wasn’t on the scale of say Mall of America or any of those other mega-mall complexes, but it was a decent size with one large chain store, Saturn (like our Best Buy). There were small specialty shops and other larger stores along with restaurants and cafes. However there weren’t any food courts in the mall.

Kinda funny that an Austrian Mall has an English name! Though I guess it’s half Austrian, since “park” is the same in both languages!
CIty Park Mall in Graz, Austria
23 February 2019

It took us about 25 minutes via tram then bus to reach City Park Mall! We were going to the Saturn store in order to buy a computer monitor and Amazon Fire Stick so we could watch TV. We decided to explore the mall first. Seamus found a wallet and we ate at one of the cafeteria styled restaurants. It was a bit confusing at first, but then we figured out how to select our food and pay.

This was really funny for me to see! I’m from Memphis, TN. These shoes were in a store display window. Note they are called Memphis One…cool name for trendy men’s shoes!
In a Walgreens like shop in the mall, Faywen found these Doritos. Note they are “Cool American” flavored! (a.k.a. Cool Ranch) Oh and of course we purchased them!

We purchased the items needed at Saturn, packed them in our personal shopping bags (you have to bring your own bags to most shops), and returned home. Robert and Liam had our mini makeshift TV up and running fairly quickly. The sound comes from our Bluetooth speaker we purchased a few days earlier. We then sat back and enjoyed watching on Netflix, The Batman Lego Movie!!

This is our little makeshift living room with TV. The barrel came with the house and it’s actually on wheels. The “living room” is actually in our bedroom on the first floor. The couch was in the room and we brought in the two chairs from other places within the house. The TV is a 24 inch computer monitor with an Amazon Fire Stick. Our “Dolby” surround sound is the bluetooth speaker sitting in front of the monitor!

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