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I was a little worried going to Belarus about the food. I didn't think it would be really crazy food, and I just heard that it was a lot of heavy foods like potatoes and such. And that's what it was, a lot of potatoes, even potato pancakes. The problem was that the food selection was so bland and boring that everything was so unappetizing by the end of the week. We even went out to eat one night at a restaurant and it tasted about the same as the food at the hotel. Looking back, I think my LEAST favorite part of the entire trip was the food. Bland, bland, bland. I did try caviar, which had more of a taste than most things I ate there.
For the first time in my life that I can remember, I felt truly and completely illiterate in Belarus. It wasn't just that I couldn't understand what the words meant, the letters all looked like gibberish - Cyrillic is quite different from Latin based characters. Even the ones that look the same actually sounded different. Fortunately, for most things at the hotel we had English translations, such as a meal that my traveling companion ordered at the restaurant that said it was "filled with language". I don't know if "language" tasted any good, but it looked a bit like legumes if you ask me.
One more little random story before I finish - on the way in on the plane flight from Frankfurt, we noticed a guy was being escorted by police everywhere he went. He boarded the plane before everyone else and was immediately surrounded by armed guards on arrival in Minsk. Our best guess was that he was being deported, although he must have been into some bad stuff to get deported back INTO Minsk. I think it would be much easier to go the other way...
One more little random story before I finish - on the way in on the plane flight from Frankfurt, we noticed a guy was being escorted by police everywhere he went. He boarded the plane before everyone else and was immediately surrounded by armed guards on arrival in Minsk. Our best guess was that he was being deported, although he must have been into some bad stuff to get deported back INTO Minsk. I think it would be much easier to go the other way...
I was a little worried going to Belarus about the food. I didn't think it would be really crazy food, and I just heard that it was a lot of heavy foods like potatoes and such. And that's what it was, a lot of potatoes, even potato pancakes. The problem was that the food selection was so bland and boring that everything was so unappetizing by the end of the week. We even went out to eat one night at a restaurant and it tasted about the same as the food at the hotel. Looking back, I think my LEAST favorite part of the entire trip was the food. Bland, bland, bland. I did try caviar, which had more of a taste than most things I ate there.
For the first time in my life that I can remember, I felt truly and completely illiterate in Belarus. It wasn't just that I couldn't understand what the words meant, the letters all looked like gibberish - Cyrillic is quite different from Latin based characters. Even the ones that look the same actually sounded different. Fortunately, for most things at the hotel we had English translations, such as a meal that my traveling companion ordered at the restaurant that said it was "filled with language". I don't know if "language" tasted any good, but it looked a bit like legumes if you ask me.
One more little random story before I finish - on the way in on the plane flight from Frankfurt, we noticed a guy was being escorted by police everywhere he went. He boarded the plane before everyone else and was immediately surrounded by armed guards on arrival in Minsk. Our best guess was that he was being deported, although he must have been into some bad stuff to get deported back INTO Minsk. I think it would be much easier to go the other way...
One more little random story before I finish - on the way in on the plane flight from Frankfurt, we noticed a guy was being escorted by police everywhere he went. He boarded the plane before everyone else and was immediately surrounded by armed guards on arrival in Minsk. Our best guess was that he was being deported, although he must have been into some bad stuff to get deported back INTO Minsk. I think it would be much easier to go the other way...
This is a figure in front of a themed restaurant (at least I think that's what it was) that we never ate at. I really wanted to go there, but there's no way to make reservations without a native speaker's help, so I never got around to it...oh well.
I don't know what "Shato-Brian with Bernes sauce" tastes like, but it can't be that good!
This is a random picture, but this is the view from a high-rise building of the city of Minsk.
2 comments:
I think some Shato-Brian sounds DELICIOUS!!!!
And for the record, I love BLAND food. I think I'd love Belarus!
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