Tag: Koserow

Sunday, September 23: Fine and sunny to begin with, becoming increasingly clouded over in the course of the day

Hiking: 27.1 km

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Was greeted by the host on leaving my room on the way to breakfast, and a woman was attentively studying the Bett&Bike certificate that this place had. When I had turned into the breakfast room, he turned to her and said, “Früshstück ist auch für Sie fertig” to which she replied, “No capito”, and I felt I was called upon the translate at least “Frühstück” into Italian for her, so I seized the moment, looked at her and said, “Colazione” to which she looked rather relieved.

Anyway breakfast was a big deal here: Four bread rolls, a slice of bread, sausage, cheese, yoghurt, a sliced kiwi, some wedges of various fruit and capsicum, an egg, some whole cocktail tomatoes and grapes. I decided that everything that could (or would have to) be thrown away was either to be eaten on the spot, or packed away for lunch.

Before our Italian lady got too carried away with my Italian, I asked her whether she spoke English, and apologised for my musician’s Italian (which she eventually got). She was from Tuscany, cycling around. The host noticing that I was communicating with her, bought out some aluminium foil for wrapping up the bread rolls in, and asked me to translate for her that we could pack up what we couldn’t eat in the foil, which I did. I was busy making some rolls ready for lunch when she came over to my table and made motions to use the foil, but I noticed she had very little idea how to tear off a sheet (surely they have aluminium foil in Italy!). The trick, of course, is to start with a small tear on one side and let the sharp edge do the cutting. But she thought the sheet might tear if uniform force was applied and couldn’t seem to see the sharp edge on the package. Read more…