What whine? Just 'cuz I love crisp bacon? I am not shamed for my love of Amurica, buddy. It's not my fault that they got gravel beaches.
This was a big trip. I had lost count of how many days we were gone. Jan said two weeks. We paid the parking and it was 8 days. We were both surprised.
A big part of the fun is the way things that you are used to at home is just a little off, a little different. I asked for a waffle for breakfast in Munich. It was right there on the menu, but the waitress was just disgusted. Nobody eats waffles for breakfast, they were for dessert at dinner. I showed her that it was on the menu and she pointed out that it was on the DINNER menu. She just refused to serve it. I was in Vienna at 6 AM and I went into a restaurant for breakfast and the woman there was just so happy to see me and that she knew what I wanted, "A big American breakfast", I said OK! She brought a waffle with bacon on it and covered with two eggs and broiled. It was one fused together thing. She was very proud and I told her it was perfect.
We spent 10 minutes trying to turn on the lights in our hotel room on one of out first nights this time and had to call the desk, none of the lights worked. Well, we found out that most of the hotels now require that you put your room key card in a slot by the door to work the lights. That way you can't leave the lights on when you are not there.
I almost got into a fistfight in London once because I had ordered a cup of coffee and I had been served very sweet coffee with cream. I said I just wanted coffee and the man got all pissed off, saying that he had served what I had asked for. Another guy calmed everyone down and explained that I needed to order coffee black. Well, now its coffee "Americano". Otherwise you will get espresso. But the coffee was always excellent everywhere I went. they have public machines now that grind the beans and make what ever kind you want, latte, cappuccino, macchiato, and you can see the beans get ground.
And here is the bus content; I saw not one Splitty or Bay. I saw both in advertising, but not on the road.
Boy, it's good to be home, but Jeez, it's HOT.----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Maroney" <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:03 AM Subject: [tcb] Re: Back in the USA!
I sure hope Denis had enough cheese to go along with all that whine! On 8/12/07, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:Gravel. There are some municipal beaches in the city of Barcelona, but I think they dredge the sand up from the seafloor as they do in the Florida Keys and, I think, Galveston.Something I just had that you can hardly find in Spain; crispy bacon. Theyhave bacon, but they serve it soft. Going to the last airport for the trip to actual home. Hmmmm, home. ----- Original Message ----- From: singlecabboy To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:07 PM Subject: [tcb] Re: Back in the USA! Welcome back, How were the beaches in Spain? Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:We are in Atlanta. I am like a walking dead. Jan got to sit in first class but they only had one first class and one steerage, so I had to sit up in acrappy seat for 10 hours and my butt hurts. Good thing I had a couple of downloaded movies on the computer and the first class attendents keptbringing me champagne and desserts and fancy cheese because they thought itwas sweet to give up my seat. Now we are in a Hilton Garden Inn and all the TV channels are in ENGLISH, WOW!!! Getting room service of something other than Iberian ham and bread. Goodbread, realy good bread, but I can only eat so much bread. the best thing I ate in Spain was like Paella (which all the restaurants serve), but this wasmore saffron soupy with rice and sausages and chicken and Big chunks oflobster. Man, it was good. Y'all come on up and I'll make a mess of it foryou. Good night. Paul Smith www.23window.com/thezone T.C.B. H.B.B. ________________________________ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.11/944 - Release Date: 8/9/2007 2:44 PM-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.11/944 - Release Date: 8/9/2007 2:44 PM
