“Meat”, glorious “meat”
16 Oct 2007 by Tom in Austria
Greetings from chilly Vienna, where it’s been around 55 degrees and sunny. We arrived in this fair city early Sunday afternoon after a quick two hour flight from Copenhagen. Josh is here too. He flew in from balmy Istanbul after a two week sailing adventure down there in the Black Sea.
The four of us have settled into our flat, which is much larger and nicer than we had expected. It’s in a regular residential building and is stocked with two bedrooms, a full kitchen, dishwasher, washer, satellite TV, sausage making machine, internet, etc. It’s rather comfy — so comfy that it’s 11:30 am and we’re still sitting around relaxing.
We’ve spent the past two days exploring some of the big sites like St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the Rathaus, Habsburg palaces. We also explored numerous narrow alleys and eaten schnitzel and bratwurst and other delicious processed meats. The other night I had pork, veal and turkey piled high on my plate, along with pickles, coleslaw, carrots and pomme frites. Outstanding. Simply outstanding.
For lunch yesterday the four of us (Jamie and I, Josh, Anette) braved a bratwurst stand and ate on a bench alongside the Danube. Jamie and I shared a huge hot dog/bratwurst thing that had cheese inside it. It was like Jimmy Buff’s, but Austrian.
They also love their coffee here. A lot. So much that ordering is complicated. We’ve tried to get regular coffee a couple times and have failed. Everything seems to be some sort of variation of a creamy cappuccino. You can also get a warm drink at a cafe on almost every block.
OK, it’s almost noon so we shoud get going. More later …
17 Oct 2007 at 3:36 pm
Glad to hear all is going well. That apartment really is something.
Keep enjoying. We’ll skpe you soon. - Mom Rose
17 Oct 2007 at 5:28 pm
oh boy! did you get your meat sweats??? ;) you guys are really livin large!
17 Oct 2007 at 9:08 pm
Oh man, I’m going to a restaurant tomorrow night in Little Falls, and that is so near Montclair and you guys are so not there and I so totally really miss you and wish I were with you in Europe, drinking coffee with you, eating meat and butter and taking photos and getting into trouble with you… well, actually there probably isn’t too much trouble making, given the fact that I was allowed to watch Electric Company (see, I bet I’m even getting into trouble right now) which equals trouble. So there’s that. I’m not even going to try and type out the little smart on my heart that is the absence of my people.