We had a late start today. The past several long days are catching up with us. So we went lazily into town and had our customery sandwich breakfast. I had a chicken curry sandwich, which turned out to be much better than the one I tried in Amsterdam. Fabian had a "fillet American", which apparently is a popular dutch sandwich, but it's neither with fillet, nor any bit American. The beef in the sandwich is raw! Ewww... Though you can't see that, cuz it's all orange and quite yummy looking. I took one bite (not knowing that it was raw) and though it was kinda gooey. Then Fabian said "oh, by the way, it's raw!" I almost choked on my bite! That one, I will not try again!
After that, we drove around, and around, and around, and around (literally), looking for some antient burial sites, which we eventually gave up trying, and headed to Utrecht, a southern Dutch town. Utrecht was also built around a moat, much like Amsterdam and Gron
ingen. It was a nice balance between the sin city of Amsterdam, and the quiet but somewhat forgotten city of Groningen. It was a city, but without the busy and harried feel of a big city, and with the flavor of a small town. Can you tell I really liked Utrecht? :) We weren't here very long, as it was late in the day already, but we stayed for dinner and had a pleasant Indian dinner along the moat. The restaurant was almost like an Indian restaurant in the States, with free Indian chips (some sort of crisp bread that looks more like chips than bread which I don't know the name of), and free water! Imagine that! FREE water! And the waiter spoke Indian flavored English. ahh... I almost felt at home! Though most of the Dutch people I ran into speak relatively good English. Not too surprising to me, since I find Dutch to be fairly similar to English in some ways. I've been able to pick up some sentences and words. I can now read a basic menu without much difficulties. Poor Fabian has been very patient with my "What's this word?" "What does that say?" heehee
We had a late start today. The past several long days are catching up with us. So we went lazily into town and had our customery sandwich breakfast. I had a chicken curry sandwich, which turned out to be much better than the one I tried in Amsterdam. Fabian had a "fillet American", which apparently is a popular dutch sandwich, but it's neither with fillet, nor any bit American. The beef in the sandwich is raw! Ewww... Though you can't see that, cuz it's all orange and quite yummy looking. I took one bite (not knowing that it was raw) and though it was kinda gooey. Then Fabian said "oh, by the way, it's raw!" I almost choked on my bite! That one, I will not try again!
After that, we drove around, and around, and around, and around (literally), looking for some antient burial sites, which we eventually gave up trying, and headed to Utrecht, a southern Dutch town. Utrecht was also built around a moat, much like Amsterdam and Gron
ingen. It was a nice balance between the sin city of Amsterdam, and the quiet but somewhat forgotten city of Groningen. It was a city, but without the busy and harried feel of a big city, and with the flavor of a small town. Can you tell I really liked Utrecht? :) We weren't here very long, as it was late in the day already, but we stayed for dinner and had a pleasant Indian dinner along the moat. The restaurant was almost like an Indian restaurant in the States, with free Indian chips (some sort of crisp bread that looks more like chips than bread which I don't know the name of), and free water! Imagine that! FREE water! And the waiter spoke Indian flavored English. ahh... I almost felt at home! Though most of the Dutch people I ran into speak relatively good English. Not too surprising to me, since I find Dutch to be fairly similar to English in some ways. I've been able to pick up some sentences and words. I can now read a basic menu without much difficulties. Poor Fabian has been very patient with my "What's this word?" "What does that say?" heehee
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