Well that's it for continental Europe. Ten and a bit weeks of snow, trains, hotels, food, walking, packing, beer, umpteen languages, a gazillion photos, and lots and lots of churches, galleries and beautiful sights.
Tomorrow we bus to London for, well, probably more of the same, except swap snow for spring flowers and languages for regional accents.
We had another excellent and fun dinner tonight of local treats, and we got to talking about the best we had so far. So;
Florence: cheesy gnocchi, vegetable soup, braised rabbit, beef casserole, white wine, Red wine, bread. Super, super, yum. Outside, near a church, in a big square. Sunny, cold wind.
Prague: sausages cooked in dark beer, quite caramelised. Stunningly delicious. A special Easter beer and a seasonal dark beer. Warm indoors, snow outside. Funny waiter who explained that in the Czech Republic women drink dark beer to make their breasts bigger.
Altusreid (Germany): home cooked everything. Quinoa salad, beautiful cheeses, organic beer, an Indian feast, spatzle, pretzels, and even beer champagne. Oh my goodness we ate well.
(No photos available. Oops. Too busy eating.)
So yeah, stuffed ourselves silly really.
Actually, speaking of stuffing oneself, the BIGGEST meal, and a near contender for top three, was in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. Look at it:
I feel fat just looking at it. Sausage, potato pancakes, spinach and cream, and giant potato pancake filled with goulash. Oh my god it was good. And pilsner Urquell and local dark beer.
So thanks mainland, see you in a month or so.
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