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
11 Dec

Café Sacher in Innsbruck is famous for its sachertorte (supreme chocolate cake). We bought a take-away slice of the sachertorte for €4.90. The mini 4x4cm one was €2.90). A2 and I tried some just before getting on the bus. It was not too sweet (even with the icing), but chocolaty and moist, especially with the soft semi-liquid layer in between. The top of each slice was graced with a chocolate disc. [caption id="attachment_2337" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Sachertorte[/caption]...

17:40 / Austria / Austrian / Café Sacher / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Innsbruck / Restaurants / Travel
11 Dec

Just before Innsbruck we had a lunch break at Rosenburger – a restaurant a bit like La Place with an attached souvenir shop. It was self-serve; we took a plate and filled it with however much we liked and the different plate sizes were different prices. A2 and I shared a small plate of cold dishes (€5.40) and a small plate of hot dishes. Of the cold dishes we had thai salad with duck, chicken and lentils, a few pieces of potato salad, salad with preserved sweet potato,...

17:32 / Food / Germany / Restaurants / Rosenburger / Travel
10 Dec

After getting the souvenir from Swisslion we got dinner at Migros, which was a small mall with a florist, gift shop, supermarket and café/bakery. Migros also have petrol stations and kiosks. They had different pastas (10-13CHF), pastries, roast pork, chicken, salads, slices of tart (3.50CHF) including rhubarb. A2 had a spinach and ricotta pastry, mum and dad shared ½ a roast chicken (8CHF), creamy pasta with spinach and two types of roast pork. One tasted like ham and looked a bit like char siu; the other was just...

16:00 / Food / Lucerne / Migros / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
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