maybe I spend too much time at the office
I just referred to the little kitchenette area on our floor as "the livingroom".
2008-10-08
Czech food
I can't really say too much about Czech food because for the duration of the conference I ate all my meals in the hotel. I can say that the hotel food was more than satisfying -- it was buffet style, with a dizzying number of options for each meal. Lots and lots of slabs of different kinds of meat, various pasta, rice, or dumpling dishes, yummy soup, a bazillion types of bread, salad fixings, fresh fruit, and at least a dozen different types of dessert. My only complaint is that the dishes were somewhat generic, and I'd been hoping to get some things a bit more traditional.
I did get something traditional Saturday night when Stéphane and I went out; we walked up and down between Muzeum and Mustek and settled on a little cellar restaurant which had live jazz (piano and saxophone) being played. We both had the Czech-style duck -- which involved, in part, an entire half of a duck. I was hungry enough to eat it all (and it was divine) and all the white sauer kraut, though I could only make my way through half the red sauer kraut, and I didn't touch the potatoes at all.
Joel arrived a little bit before midnight on Saturday, one of his trains having gotten delayed a bit (luckily he didn't miss a connection because they delayed the next train to wait for the late one). On Sunday we had about 5 hours to walk around the city; we started at the castle, and then went down to the Charles Bridge, which we crossed and then headed towards to Town Square with the astronomical clock. By then it was past lunch time but on Saturday when we were looking for a restaurant I saw a number of stands on the street selling sausages and I had my heart set on having a sausage for lunch on Sunday, so we walked until we got back to Mustek where I knew there was a stand. Mmmm, Czech sausages are good...I only wish that one of us had had time to get to a grocery store so that we could bring some home. The stand also sold mulled wine, and we each got a glass, which just hit the spot after walking around on one of the first really cool days we've had yet this fall. Yum, yum! (Makes me hungry just thinking about it again.) After lunch we walked to the Powder Tower and then to the St. Henry Bell Tower, and then it was time for me to get back to the hotel as my project was having a meeting before dinner.
Joel got to spend all of Monday and most of Tuesday sight-seeing, while I attended the conference, and we got some good pictures from the entire trip, which I will try to post soon.
I did get something traditional Saturday night when Stéphane and I went out; we walked up and down between Muzeum and Mustek and settled on a little cellar restaurant which had live jazz (piano and saxophone) being played. We both had the Czech-style duck -- which involved, in part, an entire half of a duck. I was hungry enough to eat it all (and it was divine) and all the white sauer kraut, though I could only make my way through half the red sauer kraut, and I didn't touch the potatoes at all.
Joel arrived a little bit before midnight on Saturday, one of his trains having gotten delayed a bit (luckily he didn't miss a connection because they delayed the next train to wait for the late one). On Sunday we had about 5 hours to walk around the city; we started at the castle, and then went down to the Charles Bridge, which we crossed and then headed towards to Town Square with the astronomical clock. By then it was past lunch time but on Saturday when we were looking for a restaurant I saw a number of stands on the street selling sausages and I had my heart set on having a sausage for lunch on Sunday, so we walked until we got back to Mustek where I knew there was a stand. Mmmm, Czech sausages are good...I only wish that one of us had had time to get to a grocery store so that we could bring some home. The stand also sold mulled wine, and we each got a glass, which just hit the spot after walking around on one of the first really cool days we've had yet this fall. Yum, yum! (Makes me hungry just thinking about it again.) After lunch we walked to the Powder Tower and then to the St. Henry Bell Tower, and then it was time for me to get back to the hotel as my project was having a meeting before dinner.
Joel got to spend all of Monday and most of Tuesday sight-seeing, while I attended the conference, and we got some good pictures from the entire trip, which I will try to post soon.