Hard to Find One Stop Shop...

Hi Everyone: Hope you all are well. I am fighting a bit of a cold. I have some medicine with me that I was able to pack in my suitcase but it isn't doing me much good. I like to use herbs and vitamins when I start to feel bad so I went looking for a few things. The challenge was I am not sure what store carries what I need. There are a lot of little shops around and I don't know enough of the language to know what is what yet. But that didn't stop me from trying to find what I was looking for. I looked up in the phone book for a health food store (there is a small english index to help decipher what is what). I was able to pull my downtown map out and located two possibilities not too far from each other. So I took a tram into the center and found my way to the first store. It was more set up for fitness type of vitamins with a certain brand it was trying to sell. So I went looking for the second store. It took me a while but I finally made my way to that store but it didn't carry any vitamins or herbal capsules. It had plenty of healthy kinds of food and tons of herbal tea but again not what I was looking for. As I made my way back to the center, I ducked into a small store that had earlier caught my attention. I had walked by this store a couple of times and thought maybe I should check this one out. Sure enough on its shelves were a few things that could help me attack my cold.

As I was making my way home on the tram, I got a text message from a Czech friend. She shared the location of a health food store she uses. I text messaged her back not to worry I'd let her show me that one next time. That right now I was on my way home and had found enough of what I needed. My little pocket Czech/English dictionary came in handy as I looked up the different names on the labels.

And don't worry all you Moms out there (especially my own) besides having plenty of hot soup, I am drinking plenty of tea with lemon and homemade honey. I took the above picture as proof-- that is my hot cup of tea and I am showing the tablets of vitamin C with zinc that I bought during my adventure :)

Take care until next time.
Blessings,
Colleen