Antipasti

While Em and I wandered the Old City on Monday, we came across the markets in Universatätplatz. There was a pretzl stand, a blumen stand (florist) and a fruit stand. There was also one selling sausages, speck, salami and a wide variety of cheeses... We spent 'some time' here and tried 'most of' their offerings. By the end we were cheesed out, but bought a 5-year-old Gouda with Carraway, and some other stinky cheese, plus two salami's for an antipasto platter tonight before dinner.

Once home, we joined Roger & Diana on their monthly shopping trip to the supermarket Aldi, in Germany. I love these places; they got a FULL trolley of food - milk, cheese, meat, juice, bread - for €90!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would easily be $300 in NZ :( while here, we got some more yummies for our platter (sundried tomatoes, bell peppers, nice bread) and by the time we assembled it at home, it turned out we had enough for dinner for four people!!

We ate and drank wine and chatted over dinner, and then retired to the lounge where we watched Terminator 2, dubbed into German.

The irony was that Arnie was dubbed into German by some random, when he's a native speaker! So silly... It also sounds odd when instead of yelling 'NOOOO!!!' you get 'NEIN!!!' or instead of 'RUN!!!' you get 'LAUF!!!!' ... I digress.

Our antipasti platter was a hit, and made me ponder the irony of our multiculturality (new word); that two Kiwi's, a German living in Austria with his Mexican girlfriend, had an Italian inspired dinner, then watched an American film featuring an Austrian speaking English, dubbed back into German when only one person in the room understood the movie... It was so great!!