Okay, so we're home

[ritaxis]

I didn't think I was jet lagged but I guess I am. Yesterday I was pretty efficient: today all I've done is eat and go through maybe half the pictures. (there are about 900 of them, many of which are duplicates because I didn't trust the first one or eleven or so).

Here's Frank demonstrating stroopwaffel (a kind of syrup-laden cookie) and Cuban rum to the dog, the night of our return:


Here's my whole family, astonished at the high quality of graffiti in Berlin (on the Museumsinsel):



Here's Emma partaking of a water fountain which runs perpetually in Vondelpark in Amsterdam, where there is water everywhere but mostly if you want to drink it you have to buy it in bottles from the French:




More later. Anyway, we had fun, and now I am back in my scruffy little real world.

Oh, the icon? It will only be default for a couple of days. It's more Berlin graffiti.

Yes, people use English a lot, especially in Amsterdam, but it doesn't seem so much like US-UK cultural imperialism as much as the way my kids watch anime and listen to Rammstein.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm, stroopwaffel

i want some right now.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

Only one 'f' in stroopwafel, please. And I didn't know they went with rum; we tend to have them with coffee.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll spell them right after this. The particular thing is labelled "butter-karamel-waffeln" -- the two fs are German, I guess. Though Frank first learned of them from some Belgians.

I don't think they "go with. --" Frank's just demonstrating them both to the dog, because he bought them on the trip. (The rum was from the ferry between Germany and Denmark, and ultimately from Cuba).