Another slow day. We took the car, and parked on Klamm Strasse. I went into the grocery store, Edeka, to see if they still had an elevator up to the Colesseo restaurant, which they did. The ground floor entrance to Colesseo was closed for some kind of construction, which we are encountering everywhere. Ron didn't want pizza or Italian food, so we walked on.
Spotted the small, new Indian restaurant Ron had mentioned, Saffron. We ended up having a light lunch there. It advertised lunch special of main course and salad for 7.90 EU, but everything except daal was a bit more. We sat in their small, enclosed terrace. Ron had chicken curry and I had chicken in an almond sauce. It was fairly tasteless, think they made it very mild for us non-Indian folks. Anyway, I always enjoy a change from German food, which I'm not fond of.
Then we walked into the main pedestrian street to a watch shop where Ron had left his watch for repair. He was using his old Seiko which I had bought for him in the late 1970's from the company I worked for, Business Incentives. The watch shop person reported that they couldn't fix it, and referred him to another place.
We sauntered through the pedestrian zone, happy to have lovely weather. Ron used to love to saunter, but now that he is trying to wait and help me, it is more like going at a "snail's pace", which is not so enjoyable. Nevertheless, we did walk several blocks through the Mohrenplatz, the "heart of Garmisch". This restaurant has been open since 2007, but for years we have called it "that new place". We need to take time to drop by one day soon. So many people we've met with there, both business and friends, and so many meals and libations.
We then stopped in the casino, and I again played the Gators game. Ron sat with me, as he didn't want to play. I didn't fare well, and after losing 20 EU, we were out of there.
Went back to Edeka on Klamm Strasse, but they didn't have mushroom soup or some other items we needed. For years, I've been able to buy canned mushroom soup, but it is scarce here now. Didn't like the lay-out or cleanliness of this store either. What is becoming of the old, super orderly Germany?
We then drove to another grocery store, Rewe, and finally found mushroom soup. Rewe was a bit better organized. A funny thing we have noticed is that all of the grocery stores we've been into have aisle-after-aisle of wine and spirits. There are also several enormous "drink markets" in town that have nothing but beer, wine, spirits, and soft drinks. For a small community of about 27,000 residents, it seems like a surplus of alcohol. Who are all these big drinkers, especially now that there are quite a few Muslims here. (Ron says they stocked up in anticipation of our arrival.)
We then tried to drive into Partenkirchen to find the old Frauendorfer Gasthof. It has been a gasthof 101 years. They have 30 hotel rooms, but are mostly known for their Bavarian food and entertainment evenings. The entertainment program is very touristic, featuring traditional music, dancing and schuplatten. For reasons we don't recall, we stayed in the hotel once years ago. We still have the picture we took from our balcony as the screen-saver on one of our computers.
The construction taking place in Partenkirchen must be devastating to many businesses there. Almost every road is a dead-end or an Umleitung (detour). It is an unbelievable mess. Ron finally gave up and we headed back to tranquility on Kreuzstrasse.
We had a heck of a time trying to make our dinner, a family recipe we call "Kathie's Casserole". We had brought the Uncle Ben's wild rice with us, and had finally found mushroom soup, so we thought we had it made. The only baking pan in the kitchen was very small, about 5" x 5". I thought the solution was to make up the "concoction" in the sauce pan and then use half of it in the baking dish. There was no measuring cup, so we used a coffee mug as our guide. Then we had to figure out how in the world to turn on the oven. There were no printed instructions to be found, and the oven was not self-explanatory. We finally managed to get it heated, and popped the casserole in. The next issue was there were no pot-holders. I told Ron the casserole was getting too brown, and he said, "Take it out." That would have been a disaster. He managed to get it out using two flimsy dish rags. Here is the result.
Not only wasn't it visually appetizing, it didn't taste anything like what we like at home. Ron said it was "gummy". We think the can of mushroom soup was larger than our normal "Campbells", so that may have contributed. Needless to say, we had no need to keep the other half.
We haven't been able to get any English TV channels, which is odd, as we used to get CNN and other programs. So, we aren't keeping up with the news other than what we see on the internet. So, without TV, we have had some early evenings.
Ron snuggled up under a doona on the balcony for an hour or so. I tried to take a picture, but didn't know how to use the flash, so that didn't work out. Even under the doona, it became too cool, and he came in, and it was time for bed.
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