Comments | elysesewell: my place in the old world

elysesewell

my place in the old world

Jul 01, 2009 00:58

I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about the distant past rather than two weeks ago! Oh well, I'll do my best to make it interesting even if it's not quite fresh. This entry is about ( Read more... )

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serialkiller July 1 2009, 10:18:21 UTC

It works fantastically well in Bali as well. It's so sad that we even have to do it in order to knock the price to mere peanuts when we would pay ten times the price in the US.

nfgs July 1 2009, 16:07:59 UTC

you are so clever :*

manningkrull July 1 2009, 09:03:14 UTC

That birdcage pendant is gorgeous! I would've fought you for it if I were there.

sleepygoldfish July 1 2009, 10:51:07 UTC

Oh my, poor gooseberries, really not for eating raw. But rather good in a jam or a pie or a crumble -- they need boiling up with sugar to make them edible.

sleepygoldfish July 1 2009, 17:30:42 UTC

As an American resident in the UK I'm a convert to the previously untasted gooseberry. They go really well with creamy things - gooseberry cheesecake is delicious, or cooked into a puree then folded into whipped cream and heaped on meringues - yum!

apostropher July 2 2009, 08:56:32 UTC

In the Baltics, at least, everyone eats them raw no problem :/ They're nice and sweet without any extra work...

Gooseberries ext_186105 July 13 2009, 13:30:24 UTC

In Italy they're happily eaten raw as well. They're one of my absolute favourite berries, and it makes me sad that they're unfindable in the US. The ones you tried must have been under-ripe.

budapest architecture ext_96174 July 1 2009, 11:08:13 UTC

Yeah, I loved the architecture as well. An ornateness almost on the order of Vienna or Prague. What I wasn't prepared for was the amount of graffiti. It seemed as though all ground-level facades were blanketed in stylized words/images. Not sure if you perceived it the same way. Having said that, there has been a rise in graffiti the past few months in my city here in Sweden. Maybe the sign of a rise in disaffected youth? Or cheap spray paint.

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talkingtocactus July 1 2009, 11:37:16 UTC

i also love eastern (and northern) european architecture. it can be very beautiful and even when it isn't it's significantly different enough from what i'm used to fo me to find it beautiful.

the previous poster is right, gooseberries on their own are a bit weird but if you make them into a fool, they're divine :D

are there plans for hungary to join the eu? it would be a shame to lose that money! i remember going to turkey, greece, italy in the days before the euro and ending up with a million lira/drachma in my pocket and that was just the shrapnel, it's a nightmare! but it did make for veeeeery cheap holidays.

Hungary has been in the EU for years talkingtocactus July 1 2009, 17:13:07 UTC

It just has not yet adopted the Euro.

Re: Hungary has been in the EU for years talkingtocactus July 1 2009, 17:15:10 UTC

ah, sorry, that was me being thick with my choice of words - you'd think that lbeing english (also in the eu but no euros) would mean i could tell the difference, wouldn't you?! sorry!