class in school. What little German I know was learned in 1934 and 35 and its amazing how it comes back when there is a use for it.

The people of Vienna were very friendly and helpful, asking to help when they would see us with an open map on a street corner, leaning over from the next booth in a restaurant when hearing us struggling over the menu. etc.

July 15. Took the Vienna Woods tour which was very interesting, especially when the guide on the bus would break into a Straus waltz tune every now and then. That night we had an open air dinner in the park while the band played Strauss waltzes and 4 couples danced for us. Very romantic and interesting when you love Strauss as I do.

June 16. This morning we wre due to fly to Stockholm and the bus was to pick us up about 11 a.m. I got up only to find I had the damndest cramps in my belly I had ever had. Evidently although I stuck to cokes for drinks with meals I had still gotten a dose of the jumping Italian crud or something. Anyway it would really double me up. The little chambermaid who spoke English and who brought back a dress that she had taken to the cleaners for me found me in this con- dition. With great concern she said, "Oh dear, Madam, I have some dysmehorrhea tablets in my bag would they help?" I said, with a time- less pun which went over her head I'm afraid "No thanks, its just a question of punctuation-its not my period its my colon." Too bad that genius isn't appreciated. Anyway the cramps came periodically all the way to Stockholm where we were met by Annette, our Swedish or- ganizer of FPE-NE. We drove back about 25 miles through the forest at between 80 and 100 mph. I think Annette dreams of herself as Queen of Le Mans or something. What with my cramps I asked her if she was trying to get me to the hospital before the baby came.

We got to the hotel, rested about an hour and then were taken out to dinner by Annette, Jane and the latters fiancee Eve. There was poor Dick the only man with 4 girls (P.S. I think he loved it). They were having a hard rock concert in the park across the way so it was hard to have a conversation. The young generation was as evident in Sweden as everywhere else. After dinner we strolled around and stop- ped by a "porno" shop. I am used to the magazines of nude males and nude females in this country, but it was something of a surprise to see right there in the streetside show windows front covers depicting every kind (and I do mean every kind—straight, gay, perverse, oral, anal, vaginal, single, multiple, animal you name it) of sexual activity

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