okay, you fools need to play along with my pub quiz. humor me! uncle matt gets a big transatlantic high five for playing, and he leads with 5 correct answers. anyone who cheats will lose status as my friend forever.
today is our last day in geneva, henceforth known as the most expensive city ever. okay, okay, it isn't outrageous, but it is out of control. jenny and i had pizza/pasta both nights we were here (but calories obviously don't count when you're in europe, so eat whatever you want!), and a pizza and beer each ran us $25 a person. okay, so that's 25 swiss francs, but the conversion rate is about 1 to 1 right now. we are a little sad about this, but geneva has free public transportation for visitors (you get a card from your hotel or hostel that entitles you to unlimited rides), so maybe it all works out in the end.
today i will humor you with our favorite food from this trip, since we just came home from dinner and you are still at work and certainly thinking about what you will have for dinner. best food overall probably goes to munich. we had some traditional german food at the hofbrauhaus (a beer garden) one night, and it was DELICIOUS...jenny had some meat thing (that she claims was good) and au gratin potatoes, and i had spatzle (cheesy pasta with carmelized onions on top). very good. i also had some really good indian food while we were there, and the best train station food EVER as we left munich to go to interlaken. it was pizza with huge pieces of roasted red peppers and grilled egglant on it and it was heaven. the two little german ladies who were sitting next to us on the train ate mini sandwiches and we chowed down on pizza. i, of course, am beyond being self conscious about these things. jenny and i can put away some food. what's it to you? though it probably goes without saying, i will let you know that munich also has the best beer of any country we went to on this trip. and when coke light (their version of diet coke) is the same price as beer, the deliciousness of beer is important to one's well being.
we also had some really good thai food in budapest...and i know what you're thinking - why would a person order thai food in a foreign country? because it's delicious, that's why. and the poster on the wall of the restaurant showed that yoko ono agrees with me and enjoyed this place as well. so there. jenny and i have had a rule on this trip: if no one is in a restaurant, perhaps it is best to be avoided. the thai restaurant was in the basement of a building and we couldn't really tell if anyone was there when we were standing on street level. but we risked it and, amazingly, the place was crammed FULL of people, including a huge table of thai people with millions of children who walked on the table after the meal was over. (okay, jenny has just reminded me that not ALL thai food in europe is good. case in point: the thai food in interlaken that we spent 20 minutes in the rain [no rain jacket for claire, mind you] trying to find, and then 20 minutes afterwards trying to find our way home. this food was hot and that was its only redeeming quality. do not eat thai food in interlaken.)
tomorrow we head to the airport - jenny back to atlanta and me to london. i begin my solo adventures...more on that when i get there!
About Me
- miss claire
- i love yoga, trivia nights, npr, cooking, eating, nerdy board games, live music, and good books. i heart my family and feel lucky to have amazing friends spread around the country. moving to texas is my newest adventure!
2 comments:
First of all, telling everyone that Uncle Matt got 5 out of 10 right, but not saying which ones, is like playing that dumb game Mastermind that overachieving parents bought for their (hopefully overachieving) children in the early 1990s, in which you get black or white pegs to tell you if you are on the right track in guessing your opponent's colors. If any readers were not said child (i.e. a Logsdon), go here for the info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
Second, I think Pearl Harbor was in 1942. Is that right? I'm embarrassed. It's wrong. Just pretend I didn't ask.
Third, I wish that I was doing something fun like losing my raincoat on a train instead of suffering through 2.5 more days of school. I currently have the kids in the computer lab and I'm only sort of monitoring what they are doing, though my threats of "we'll just go downstairs, then, if you can't follow the rules," seems to be keeping them on the straight and narrow.
Hope you're having fun on your own! Keep us updated on the excitement in the British Isles.
P.S. Luckily NYC is in a budget crisis, because if they follow Geneva and start handing out free subway cards and the train fills up with clueless tourists (no offense), I don't know what I'll do...
I left a message yesterday, but the blog wounldn't let me sign in as Dodie, so it was anonmous(that's not how you spell it)
Anyway, John answered too, and I like his response that the first settlement was in Florida-anyway...Have a good day
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