miƩrcoles, 2 de septiembre de 2009

Europe, Summer 2009

I've spent most of the summer travelling around Europe. Wonderful stories, people, and food. Here is a brief version through pictures (click on photos to open larger versions).
Slovakia
After a morning of hunting wild boar in Slovakia, Peter (the hunter) and I (the binoculars expert) went to the local krcma, or pub, to celebrate our catch (mushrooms and cherries). There we happened upon The Bear.

My favourite restaurant in Bratislava, Verne Café, serves great traditional food at low prices. There is also an assortment of non-traditional food, like warm Camembert.

But I'm always up for making goulash at home, too!

Austria
I was quite impressed with the variety of signs I saw in Graz.






Slovenia
Slovenia also had impressive street art and food. And who's that ridin'? Could it be...John the Tattooator and the book of the Seven Seals?












Italy
Finding affordable housing is a problem, even in Genova

In Treviso there's an ice cream parlour called "Lickland".

In Viareggio, Bar "H" is now called Bar "Obama", bikes are as sweet as candy, and surf'n'turf means beef and clams!






And at the biennale in Venice, the Singapore pavillion had a wonderful exhibition on remakes of classic films






POLAND
Knights in Warsaw had long moustaches which they twirled whilst pondering the sky at dusk.




Life in Zakopane looks hard, but there's plenty of meat (and lard appetizers) to make it worthwhile! Oh, and puppies for sale by the baskets!












I met the biggest pizza I've ever seen in Lodz

1 comentario:

jades dijo...

i love the pictures of all that food! can't wait to see you!