It's raining again...

I woke up to a promising sky – even though there were some clouds it looked like a good day ahead. I went to breakfast, which was a buffet style collection of many goodies. Because of the way it was arranged I actually only found some stuff after I was already pretty full, when I went to look for a spoon to eat my dessert (yoghurt).

The people that I am working with the next couple of days had emailed me a google map with a line marking the exact route. It was really easy to find, and as they mentioned, no bicycle required. It is a small town.

After a few hours of work we went to lunch. And we literally went – it was a 15min walk. I haven’t walked to lunch with a work group since… actually I can’t remember ever walking to lunch with other people if it involved a walk for more than 5 minutes. Kind of amazing.

The weather was changing rapidly throughout the day and at times it came down in buckets. After work I went to a shopping center to get some shoes as I only had brought some sandals (my regular day shoes were all pretty worn and not worth carrying over the Atlantic). I could have walked 15min to the hotel and be home – instead I walked about 10min in the opposite direction to get to the Intersport. While I was shopping I could hear the rain come down. The mall wasn’t that big and after I had rounded it twice with the buckets up above still unloading I decided to eat.

I have figured out by now that jedilnik means menu (in the sense of a three course meal served with soup/salad, main dish and dessert). I could have even ordered jedilnik vegetarijanska, which would have been a fairly good bet it contains something vegetarian. But I wouldn’t have known what to do if the guy behind the counter would have asked me stuff like “Which vegetarian dish do you want?”, “What kind of soup would you like”, or “do you want fries with that?”. So instead I opted for the easy way out: “Pizza tuna”.
Of course they didn’t have that and we continued in English. I then ordered a veggie pizza. It was prepared right there and then.

Now I am stuffed, writing these lines after missing the 15min window of no rain. If you don’t see this report anytime soon I am still sitting hear, waiting for better weather…