10 Dec

At the train station there was a stall selling one of the Swiss national dishes where a big block of cheese is heated and the melted cheese is scraped off and put on bread/vegetables etc. One slice of bread with cheese was 8CHF and I wasn’t interested in it because it was just cheese on toast. If I was going to try a cheesy dish it would have been fondue. Unfortunately mum kept saying ‘Want to try? Want to try?’ so the man thought we wanted it and...

15:52 / Dessert/Sweets / Lucerne / Misc European / Swiss / Switzerland / Train Station / Travel
10 Dec

Near the train station was a chain bakery called Bachmann, which sold macarons (Luxemburgerli brand). We thought we’d try them here to compare to Lauduree ones. I bought 4 macarons; chocolate, praline, raspberry and cinnamon/plum for 3.90CHF. The raspberry one wasn’t nice, the chocolate one was like eating a chocolate truffle. The others were nice. The exchange rate is currently 0.89AUD to 1CHF and the service charge was 4CHF. I think the average food price is 20-30CHF. [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2"]...

15:52 / Bachmann Bakery / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
09 Dec

Halfway through our bus drive from Germany to Switzerland we stopped at the House of Black Forest Clocks. There were souvenirs, cuckoo clocks, grandfather clocks as well as their famous, and supposedly the original, black forest cake. The owner gave us a free postcard with the cake recipe on the back. The cake had a nice, moist chocolate sponge layer, but I still don’t like glace cherries. [caption id="attachment_2226" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Original Black Forest Cake[/caption]...

15:45 / Black Forest / Dessert/Sweets / Food / German / Germany / House of Black Forest Clocks / Restaurants / Travel
08 Dec

For the last 15 minutes of our time in Cologne, we got lunch at a chain bakery called Kamps. A2 had a chicken schnitzel burger/bun, mum had a custard pretzel-shaped pastry, and dad had a cinnamon and apple pastry. I had a roll with huge sunflower seeds (both on top and inside the bread), white ham, mustard, white soft cheese and lettuce (€3 something). A2 and I also shared a triangular shaped sweet bun with spots of cinnamon and a crunchy crust (€0.79). [caption id="attachment_2223" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Custard Pretzel...

15:45 / Cafe / Cologne / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Germany / Kamps Bakery / Restaurants / Travel
07 Dec

After walking around Amsterdam by ourselves, we returned to the hotel for our included hotel dinner. The entrée was a salmon mixture, which may have had chopped pickle, onion and sour cream/natural yoghurt. The main dish was chicken schnitzel and grilled/roast vegetables like zucchini, capsicum, onion and eggplant (though sadly I didn’t get any eggplant). Dessert was just ice cream with chocolate sauce and an Argentinean cherry (also known as a gooseberry), which was yellow and had three leaves on the stem. [caption id="attachment_2217" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ice Cream w....

15:38 / Amsterdam / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Netherlands / Restaurants / Travel
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