13 Dec

When we arrived at the Marchfelderhof Restaurant we were greeted by five waiters who held up a welcome banner and stopped traffic to roll out a red carpet across the road. They tied a piece of red ribbon between the two poles of the banner and gave someone a pair of scissors to cut it as they entered. When we stepped inside, violinists and guitarists played us a welcome tune, while inside the dining room there was a keyboardist and saxophonist/oboist. Although there was a booking for 14, we...

17:53 / Austria / Austrian / Deutsch-Wagram / Food / Marchfelderhof Restaurant / Misc European / Restaurants / Travel
12 Dec

Before leaving Salzburg we had time to wander around the farmers market in Universitätsplatz (we didn’t go to the Christmas market) and the oldest bakery in the city. From the old bakery I got a 1kg round, flat loaf of stone-baked rye bread (€3.90). At one of the farmers market stalls we bought a poppy seed strudel (€2.50), a gingerbread cookie with devil icing decoration (€1) and a hollow, cylindrical Hungarian sweet bread with cinnamon sugar (€4). The Hungarian sweet bread was the nicest of the things we bought....

17:45 / Austria / Dessert/Sweets / Farmer's Market / Food Markets / Hungarian / Salzburg / Travel
11 Dec

This was the nicest hotel we stayed in during the whole tour. Dinner was topinambur cream soup (a creamy artichoke soup with maybe potato in it), an entrecote of beef with, green beans wrapped in bacon and macaire potatoes (fried potato cakes with peas and bacon bits) and nougat dumplings with stewed plums. I’m not sure where the nougat was, but the dumplings were filled with chocolate. I was given the biggest piece of beef out of everyone on the table, so I swapped my plate with dad’s. [gallery...

19:42 / Austria / Austrian / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Misc European / NH Hotel / Restaurants / Salzburg / Travel
11 Dec

Breakfast the next morning was also the best of the tour; cakes (apple slice, chocolate marble cake, hazelnut strudel and raspberry/cream cheese strudel), many different varieties of  bread rolls and loaves, smoked salmon, cheeses (including brie), hams, cereals, different types of yoghurt (including natural yoghurt), bircher muesli, grilled tomatoes with cheese, mushrooms with some sort of paprika sprinkling, bacon, fried egg (runny), boiled egg, scrambled eggs, baked beans etc. There was also a wider range of teas and fruit juices (including a multivitamin juice). I ate a lot...

17:45 / Austria / Cafe / Dessert/Sweets / Food / NH Hotel / Restaurants / Salzburg / Travel
06 Dec

We tried a waffle from one of the many waffle stores here in Brussels. I tried strawberry and chocolate, A2 tried raspberry and chocolate with a little bit of cream and dad had a plain chocolate one. They were all €4-5 each. There’s also a waffle store chain which sells the waffles out of vans. [gallery columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="2205,2207,2206,2204"]...

15:33 / Belgium / Brussels / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Restaurants / Travel / Waffles
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