kend...ish.I've been to see some parts of this city, yesterday myself and mike, he being a new zealand-er from the place where I'm staying, went to visit the vatican city and the cistine chapel, just because we were told it was impressive, maybe we would have been more impressed if either of us were religious, which it turned out, we weren't, so you can imagine how stupid we sounded walking into most rooms on the vatican museum tour saying "is this one the cistine chapel?", turns out
this one one the left is the cistine chapel, its a bit blurry but don't complain, there were guys walking round saying "no photo, no photo" our personal theory is that they don't want people who haven't been to see how unimpressive it actually is so they can still sell tickets... bastards!
Then today I took a trip down to the Colosseum to watch a fight to the bloody death... turned out I was a little late and they outlawed that kind of thing a good few hundred years back, but I was able to wander round and see where this kind of activity used to take place.. or at least whats left of it.
Since my Journey has now all but ended, having been to 8 different countries, stayed in 6 different hotels, 6 different hostels and a campsite, been in 6 different airports and having spent around a day and a half on various trains across the continent, I want to take a moment to discuss... hotdogs, yep hotdogs, now back in the UK you have found yourself a quality vendor if you get a real sausage in your elongated bun and personally I find myself lucky if I can stop them in time before they desecrate my beautiful lump of pig fat and gristle with a mountain of fried onions, but across the continent I have found, many different ideas of what a hotdog is, so I felt like running through them for my own personal amusement really, and I'm going to rate them out of 5, wait no 6, since thats the average length in inches for one of these badboys.
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The Prague DogWhat is it?
Something of a baguette with a hole with a sausage dropped inside, with whatever sauces you want filling the space
Where you get it?
From a shed in the middle of any good pavement
What you think?
Good. very edible and because of currency conversion rates and whatnot it will only set you back 40 kurons (a little under a quid:)---------------------------
The Krakow Dog
What is it?
An oversized bun, with a tiny sausage and a mountain of lettuce and other assorted entire packets of vegetation they like to throw on top
Where you get it?
From a dirty window covered in signs with a fat lady sat behind it
What you think?
Awful, absolutely awful, when I order a hotdog I want something that fills me with cholesterol and will help me towards an early heart attack, it almost seems like a wasted when half of what she gave you is on the floor and your left with a dry lump of bread with sausage.---------------------------
The Wieliczka Dog
What is it?
Krakow being a tiny town just 10km SW of Krakow, but its sausage based food earns a mention all of its own, take the Baguette with a hole idea, but absolutely stuff it with pieces of sausage meat occasionally stopping to add sauces
Where you get it?
From a window like in Krakow, but bigger just to near a park thingy
What you think?
Fantastic, better than anything ever, worth returning to Poland for on its own, I want to give it more than 6 pints, but that would mean changing the image, which takes effort. Only 4zl50 aswell!! (less than a pound)---------------------------
The Dortmund Dog
What is it?
I didn't but any hotdogs in Dortmund, come to think of it I don't recall seeing anywhere selling hotdogs at all
Where you get it?
You don't, for the sake of argument they don't sell hotdogs in germany, which I find kind of Ironic to say the least
What you think?
It gets no points. don't buy food in Germany!---------------------------
The Dam Dog
What is it?
I also didn't buy any hotdogs in Amsterdam, but now I think is a good time to mention the kemer chicken kebab, anyone who has ever had one will know they are worth continually eating until you get ill, I never have but a trip that way is not complete unless you eat one
Where you get it?
Kemer kebab shop about 5/20 minute walk from the flying pig depending on your state of mind
What you think?
Amazing, it gets as many points as it likes, The kind of food that if I found out one day was made from rats in the cellar, I wouldn't care as long as they kept killing the rats in the cellar!---------------------------
The Brussels Dog
What is it?
I was handed my sausage in a burger bun, its not even as though he didn't have the right buns there, but I got a burger bun
Where you get it?
From a man with a grill under a canopy in a row of canopied stalls, the rest sold clothes, maybe he should do the same
What you think?
Not impressed, my dog didn't fit my bun---------------------------
The Paris Dog
What is it?
Its a nice big baguette, with a nice big sausage, covered in a layer of melted cheese. mmm
Where you get it?
From a food shop by a road I walked down while slightly lost. I'll take you someday!
What you think?
Excellent! the best thing about France! nay the only good thing about france, knock down the eiffel tower and replace it with a huge cheesy hotdog stand says I!---------------------------
The Madrid Dog
What is it?
I also did not eat a dog in this country, though I think they get a point for giving me food with my drinks
Where you get it?
Tapas bars!!
What you think?
I like the little bread and the chorizo. nice touch---------------------------
The Rome Dog
What is it?
Something of an oddity, seems to be more of a sausage sandwich in kebab bread. good though:)
Where you get it?
From a hotdog man bear the colloseum
What you think?
Was nice, he put a single leaf of lettuce on it, so it was edible unlike the krakow attempt!
