TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, December 2, 2005

5:39 PM
Posted by jodi rose

bridge watch
nothing much to report
walked down to the river after weekly grocery shopping
always a challenge finding the exact ingredients in slovakian
commuter traffic peak hour backed up to the second arch
the water cold and dark rushing by in shadow

now the novelty has officially worn off
friday dec 1st 12.48pm for anyone with bets on
less than a month, give or take trips away
learning to be self-reliant, self-nurturing and all that
last night cooked green curry with tofu, leek, mushroom,
weird sour cream I bought in hopes it was sweet but no
doesn't seem to exist -always yoghurt or sour not pouring
so much for being a domestic goddess - but hey, it's an attitude
and found mini-loaf tray for making chocolate pudding

learn today while translating the town museum brochure into english
that the area has been continuously inhabited since neolithic times
and one of the most significant archeological sites in central europe
is where the paper factory now stands, built 1965 during the communist era, but the good news is that some of the artefacts are due to be returned from the national archeological museum.
gave the town a boulevard, and portraits of the famous and infamous.

tonight is an advent concert in the church, with a choir and trumpet enemble from budapest. as long as they're not the trumpets of the apocalypse.....