Well its Friday, and that means I get to leave Munich, the DataStage Enterprise Edition Mentoring training (part one), and head back home..
It’s been a fairly good week, mad cat lady taxi drivers, souvenirs form restaurants (so far one large menu, for the comedy value of the translated items on the menu, and shot glasses from last night), Wim catching beer mats like some dog thats never seen a stick before, squealing pig impressions,Le F*cking Car, and evenings sat under lamps hanging from reindeer antlers..
Last night we experienced more traditional German customs, this one, the ordering of starters at the restraunt. It seems that you can’t have white sausage after 9am, and having been sorely told off by the waiter for even considering that I might be able to have one, he took my alternative starter option, the beef stew with pancakes..
It seems though he took great offense to this, and decided to completely ignore all our starters, and skip straight to the main course when he delivered it, although maybe this was some other weird German custom of just stating, if you did have a starter, what would be really nice to have..
It also seems that whatever desert you have, and you are allowed deserts between the hours of 9am and 1am, it consists of a loaf of bread in custard.. or.. for us a big bun in custard..
I guess the final thought for the week is, Do my ears look big in this??
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December 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Hi Andrew, haven’t read your blog for a while, I feel forced to comment on this entry. First, I am asking myself if I should be offensed by the fact that you didn’t give me a call that you were coming to Germany. Let me think about it. Second, an important fact that many people from the English speaking world plus the Asians as a total completely neglect: Germany is not just Bavaria or, even worse, Munich. Yes, I fully agree that the Bavarians have weird customs, especially when it comes to food, so please emphasize that you have been in Bavaria, a small and - some people like me like to say - neglectable part of Germany. Oh, btw, maybe the english geeks could simply shut their mouth when it comes to food when they don’t want replies which include English eating habits….
Kai
December 10th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
nice to hear from you again Kai… I think actually if I remember I messaged you when we were in Munich and you were out of town.. or holiday… I cannot remember which now.. but rest assured… I would have been honored to sit under reindeer antler lampshades with you
It was just a very surreal trip