*roughly 5 days after my 21st birthday I was carded buying a beer... in Germany... where the drinking age is approximately 13.
*At some point while drinking on the square in Rijeka N and I got hungry and while I ordered my 8th Cevapcici in a row Nia opted for a vegeburger. She was suspicious (veggie burger in Croatia, really? but what the hell), and rightfully so. Vegeburger in Croatia means a burger without the burger. Bun, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, mustard and a slice of Amerikan Cheese.
*On a seperate occation Nia was eating a sandwich at a cafe and a passerby looked at her and while fake chewing said "gnam gnam gnam gnam" we're still not sure why.
*While stumbling around Ljubljana that first most fateful night we were contemplating sleeping in a park when a stoat crossed the sidewalk and just stood there for roughly 45 seconds, just staring.
In more recent history:
* Two days after pride our friend Sara approached us and with great horror exclaimed "You never told me that the glitter does not come off!"
* We got trendy Euro haircuts, modeled for you here in this fake garden.
In Other Food: Gnam Gnam Gnam Gnam
Here are some photos of Nia eating:
Also, upon my insistence Nia smoked some very slim, very femme tiny cigarettes with a butterfly on them.
Things we have discovered that will either result in us never returning to the land of Spray Cheese or us gaining 15 lbs each.
* Pizza Burek, Surely the best thing Globalization ever created, Like a huge flakey pizza pocket, or pure joy.
* Pita which means Pie, every morning here in Bosnia Rene goes out and brings home a new kind of Burek and pita. Here Burek only refers to the meat filled pies which magically all taste different, and you can get a pita with almost anything in it. Each more delicous than the last.
*Lemonade Beer: I generally like to be a hard as diamonds, I like my beer like I like my women hoppy beer feeme, but man, lemonade beer is just so tasty.
* more and more and more pastry. We eat pastry two or five times a day. I could chalk this up to some kind of national custom, but its actually just uy eating flaky dough wrapped sausages and berry filled strudel like delights all the day long.
*Sladoled means ice cream... but better. at some point Nia turned to me with both our cones in her hands and said, they are all so good, but cookies makes me cry. Refering to a batter flavor with cookies on top that is called "cookies". We also love Don Vito which is some kind of vanilla thing with jammy swirls in it.
* Kremsnita: every region in Slovenia has a traditional dessert (Mojca drew me a map of all of them) and the region bordering the one we are in is known for Kremsita. This is two thin layers of flakey pastry dough and powdered sugar filled with about two inches of cream filled cream.
* Eurocrem: Imagine nutella... on crack. It is one side of chocolatey hazelnut love and one side of milky hazelnut goodness. You eat a little from each side and it is surely the best of both worlds. We saw a huge jaw of it today which had a handle. I am considering starting to carry that instead of a purse.
Here are some photos of me with Eurocrem:
As for what exactly we've been doing...We spend a few day in the little adorable river town of Banja Luka where we ate amazing food, sat in Cafes while the daily monsoon style rain storm poured down and hung out with Rene, which looked kind of like this:
We spent the fourth of July drinking plumk brandy and swimming at Rene's friend's house in the country. It looked a little like this:
And now we are in Serievo where we have been eating... but also seeing some sightes.
Sightes-
A cool sculpture:
A market with wares:
Nia warms her hands at the eternal flame:
We climbed to the top of the city and saw a really gorgous cemitary.
tomorrow we rise to catch a 7 hour 6 am bus ride to Belgrade, Serbia.
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