Butter Bread

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Yvonne and I made lunch, really I just sliced what she told me to slice but I think it counts, we had German pancakes. The pancakes weren’t sweet like normal pancakes and we filled them with ham and vegetables, it was really good. For dessert we covered the pancakes with Nutella and put sliced strawberries on top, also really good.

Yvonne, Stefanie and I went to the Lake of Constance on the border of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We parked the car and walked through some really beautiful gardens and then walked down by the lake front. The lakefront has lots of shops and restaurants and we found a restaurant that Stefanie had been to before and wanted to visit again.

Stefanie was insistent that I have the German food item called “butter bread” and so she ordered it to give me some. What is in butter bread you ask, bread with a massive amount of butter on it and then sprinkled with salt and pepper. Nothing fancy but somehow in a restaurant it tastes fancier than normal bread simply covered in butter.

It started to rain outside and we didn’t have any rain gear. We just sat in the restaurant taking silly pictures and waiting for the rain to subside.

During this time of the year in this part of Germany they have a wine called sousa and all of the restaurants and bars were selling it. Since it is only available seasonally in this part of Germany we were pretty much obligated to give it a try and so we did. It was sweet and delicious.

I was still hungry after the butter bread so we went to a Turkish restaurant and Stefanie and I ordered a kebab sandwich to share. Yvonne asked us how it was and Stefanie said that she liked it but wished there were more vegetables. I replied that I also liked it but wished there was more meat. We looked at each others halves and realized I had gotten most of the veggies and she most of the meat, so we swapped sandwiches and everyone was happy.

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