Translation of accumulation in German

The worst thing about starting the day in the main market is that you have to carry everything that you buy for the entire day. We did not want that and quickly returned to our place.
However, his English was excellent and we soon found out that he was an English teacher before the war. We agreed on a price for showing us the entire area during the next 2 days. We took a nap and he picked us up later.
We asked for the price and were surprised to hear it: A hundred dollars a night. We were actually happy to hear the high price because we knew that if we would not find anything else there was still a good place to stay in.