Day 6 — Can I get that club belegtes brot without mayo

Or better yet, without fried egg!  We didn’t do too much today, mostly walked around some of the areas we saw yesterday.  We missed a lot with all the rain yesterday.  Today was sunny and mostly warm.  It was nice to get around the city now that we sort of know our way around.  We had dinner at the restaurant of the Hotel Anna.  Really just a coffee shop and sandwich place.  The German for sandwich is belegtes brot.  Since brot means bread, I think this is something like between bread.  Anyway, one of the things that we find interesting is the frequent use of American terms.  And I mean American as opposed to English.  You hear ‘OK’ a lot.  People sometimes say ‘I am done’ when the waiter asks to clear their plate.  The term ‘to-go’ pops up all over, as opposed to the British ‘take-away’ or whatever the literal German would be.  And a lot of advertising uses English words.  We saw ‘Crazy Prices’ on one sign.

So we sat down in Anna’s and pretty much could read only one word on the menu;  clubsandwich.  Not club belegtes brot.  We could see it had bacon and something else we could not decipher.  We asked for an English menu, but they had none.  Gulp.  Our waiter spoke little English.  And yet, we managed to find out the mystery ingredient was turkey breast.  Ok, we’re in  business.  Well, turns out club sandwiches, at least at Anna’s, include cucumbers and fried eggs.  But no mayo, which is what I was really afraid of.  A little disassembly and I had a fine turkey, bacon, mustard and mustard sandwich.  Or belegtes brot…

We also manged to avoid Starbuck’s visiting two locations of Coffee Fellows, a chain more numerous,  by our count, than Starbuck’s.  Good stuff.  They also have a lot of outlets of the San Francisco Coffee Company, but we’re pretty much in the Coffee Fellows camp now.

Tomorrow is Austria, Salzburg to be specific.  And more driving!

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