Second Day - Broken Languages

It is going well. Today we tried Doener for lunch. It was soooo good. It takes like a really fresh gyro with amazing tzatziki sauce. It is inexpensive too. We also ate at this little pizza stand. Although pizza here is different than in the U.S. It is made on this oval shaped flat bread that taste like the best pretzel dough you have ever had. They put really interesting things on it too. I was the first one to buy one and try it so I went with pepperoni. The sauce was much more creamy tasting than our pizza dough. Anyways I asked the man behind the counter, who I believe was the owner, what the other pizza's were made out of. Between his broken English and our broken German, we figured it out. Then he said that he wanted us to try this one pizza. It was really interesting looking with cooked bow tie pasta in orange and green, ham, cheese, and other unidentifiable things on it. We thought he meant a small tester piece and were amazed at his generosity since that was the last "butterfly" pizza and a restaurant owner in the U.S. would never do something like that. No, he cut up the whole pizza and gave us each a fifth of it for free...especially since the butterfly pizza was amazing. I believe he has made future customers for the next six weeks. In Mannheim, nothing is open on Sunday so today we stocked up on easy things that we could make with the limited cooking items in the kitchen (read one stirring spoon and a pot). So we are looking at pasta for tomorrow. On the other hand we will be getting back around the late evenings on every other Sunday so we will either have to eat on the train or have pasta/romen ready when we get back.