Fact #2 about Denmark: Best time to buy a house

This is funny, but as Homer would say: “It’s funny cause it’s true”.

One of the first things I learned after coming to Denmark was that Danes get very very crazy at the Christmas parties, crazy drunk that is. And when you’re drunk like that most of your inhibitions disappear.The result is that married people end up having sex with other married (but not to each other) people from the aforementioned parties.

Thus, the best time to buy a house in Denmark is after Christmas because that means that the wild Christmas party sex happened and people are getting divorced and in a hurry to sell their house and split the earnings.

I guess this was true mostly before the financial crisis, but you never know …

Cafe Coyote y Cantina

This was the best place we ate at so far while in the US. Check out their site.
It's not a fancy restaurant, just a local San Diego restaurant (cantina) in the Old Town. We were there during an American football night, the place was packed with supporters (latinos and not only) who were drinking and eating nachos. It was noisy and cozy at the same time and finally one place where the AC was not on max power on.
I think all the waiters are Mexicans but they speak a perfect English.
The best thing about the place was the food and the tequila. A lot of tequila choices from $5 to around $100 a shot (it was more like a double shot actually).
They make the best and probably spiciest salsa sauce I have ever tasted and the tortilla soup was awesome. I never had tortilla soup before but with my upcoming cold and all (all this AC mania finally got to me) decided to try it. It’s a very interesting combination I wouldn’t thought it would work so good ever before. It’s a chicken broth with chicken pieces, lots of chili, tortilla noodles and … wait for it.. avocado and cheese. Pretty tasty and as everything spicy I’ve already put it on my fav’s list. Will try to make it at home.

About Americans

 

We are spending our honeymoon in US – East and West coast. It is my fourth visit to US but the first one with my husband. We landed in New York and spent a couple of days there and then flew to Las Vegas and West coast. We’ve been in the US for about 10 days now and I think we’ve seen quite a sample of people while visiting the main cities on the east and west coast.

For me, 80% of the Americans look about the same, no matter if they’re woman or man. There is a certain limit of weight you can put on after which you just cannot look too much like your old self. You start to resemble another kind of people and lose most of your distinct face characteristics. That’s like 80% of the Americans no matter the skin color or gender. And then there is the other 20% of people who are probably expats, New York or LA people.

Every time I see one of the “weight challenged” Americans I cannot stop making the association in my head with all those fat people from Wall-E. Here’s what I am talking about…

And here’s an image of an American.

Can you spot the difference?

The California highways are full of commercials with numbers you can call for a lose weight program and the irony is that the people they use as models in those ads aren’t very lean either. The weight problem it’s so out of control that now an overweight person becomes a model. Most of the Americans are probably morbidly obese already. And that’s in California where I thought people should eat healthier (with all the sea food options and all…)

I think that’s one of the reasons I like Europe (Denmark especially) more. I love my organic low fat milk and cereals in the morning (I think I never ate so many eggs per day in my whole life –a normal omelet is made of 3 eggs here!), no junk sauce salads and organic fresh veggies and meat. US has a LOT of good points about it but food seems to not be one of them…

Continuing my research on that…

Travelling: Cinque Terre

In the summer of 2009 we had one of our best vacations – Italy. We booked through Expedia our hotels in Rome for 5 days, then La Spezia (close to Cinque Terre) for another 5 days and finally Florence for the last 4 days. They were all 4 star hotels for which we got a pretty good deal, nice breakfast and very nice and comfortable rooms. We took into account staying in hostels and other hotels (less stars), but coming to just doing the calculations at the end of the day we were only spending about 10 eur additionally if we were to stay at the 4-star hotels for which we got the deals rather than the hostels. So, normally we went for the first choice.

It was wonderful. We had our already usual rendez-vous on the Rome airport (as I am flying from Copenhagen and he was flying from Bucharest) and then our different direction departure in Florence (me flying back to Cph and him flying back to Bucharest). Fortunately (or unfortunately?) all these rendez-vous will end this summer with our wedding when one of us will have to move.

Back to the post: Cinque Terre is so amazing. It’s a UNESCO world heritage and comprised in the Cinque Terre National Park. Everything there is untouched, unmodernized and the 5 villages are so colorful and bright. They are all on the coastline of the Italian Riviera on hills overseeing directly the Mediterranean sea. The 5 villages are: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernassa and Monte Rosso. All of them are interconnected through walking trails (which of course we walked through our stay there) and a regional train which mostly runs through tunnels. We ate at some very nice and cozy restaurants which serve very good and fresh seafood. We love their anchovies. Wine is also very good as there are plenty of vineyards on the hills surrounding the villages.

Here are some of our pictures.

 

Us on the trails walks between the villages.

Riomaggiore

 

 

 

 

  

 

Via del Amore which connects Riomaggiore and Manarola.

Us replicating the Via del amore lovers.

I am halting here this post and I will continue the story in a next one.

Glam glam!