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Last night I dreamed I was visiting somewhere in Europe. Exactly where wasn’t 100% clear. It was along a coast. It was fairly cold, but I think that was just the time of year.
It was a bit like when I visited the Netherlands two years ago, but not quite.

I started out in a city center on a harbor. I think I had taken a train to get there, as I did for Amsterdam two years ago.

The area where I started was right by the harbor and fairly crowded. I started in a building with a roof but no sides. People were going all over the place, many carrying things.

As I walked through the crowd towards an edge someone handed me a piece of paper. I took it, but did not read it, stuffed it in my pocket and kept walking.
A man walked up to me and held out another.
"You better put on a hat or you’ll get lots of these," he said.
I read this one and it was a citation for not wearing a hat.
It said that if I got 4 of them I would be entered into a lottery. The lottery would decide which of the people entered had to pay a fine or go to jail for not wearing a hat.
I pulled out the first one, which was now fairly crumpled, and saw it was the same thing.
I reached into my coat’s pocket and pulled out a hat.
It was the red pointed one I sometimes wear when performing. (See icon.)
It wasn’t a warm hat, but I still put it on.
As I lowered my arms from putting on my hat a woman was standing there with one of the citations held out to me.
"But, I have a hat on!" I said.
"You didn’t when I held this out to you!" she said.
I took it and walked out of the building.

The building opened onto a city square type area. There was a road off to the right with many shops, so I went off that way, looking in all of the windows.
I found an interesting hobby shop and went into that. They had some interesting things, but I decided not to buy anything.

As I went along the road there were fewer shops and more homes. I crossed a small river and saw mostly houses beyond. I was about to turn around when I heard someone call to me.
"Hello Frank!" came from the house on the right side of the road.
I looked over and it was the Winter Wizard that used to work for me at the last place I worked. He moved back to Switzerland several years ago when he and his wife started having kids.

I went over and talked with him. He had not known I was in town, so was surprised to see me walking along his road.
He invited me to dinner. His wife and another woman came out of the house and began to discuss where and what we should eat.
Dream ends.

There was more to the dream in the middle when I was in the hobby shop, but I don’t remember it now. It had something to do with model trains.
There was also something else with the hat citations, but I can’t remember what. I think the Winter Wizard had implied that it was some sort of scam on tourists. But, I don’t remember the details.

When he and his wife moved back to Switzerland it was to Bonaduz Switzerland, which is certainly not a harbor town. So, not sure what that’s about.