As always time passes so quickly and especially when we have a beautiful time, we feel time passes much faster. Just few days staying in Wien. But I have a lots of memories. And specially I was touched by kindness of local people. And asking myself when I was in Japan and met some foreigners, was I enough kind to them?
I think I wasn’t so generous to foreigners. It’s absolutely normal sometimes they have different way of thinking and style of life. But that time I was always thinking the proverb “When in Rome do as the Romans do”. Of course there are some truth in the proverb. And if all people can do like this, life gose very easy and smooth.
And now I’m in the same situation and I’m telling my self this proverb but often I found difficulties and started insisting on my mother culture. I’m ashamed of myself. I’m inconsistent with my old opinion. And I found out I’m lacking in acceptance and compromise.
I hope I mature more as a notice of this experience in Wien.
Finally I could eat Sachertorte and Apfelstrudel. Both of them are typical sweets in Austria (Wien) so it’s very easy to find a restaurant where you can eat them. But why finally I could eat…?! In Austria the size of food is soo big for me. At first Swiss food was also big for me but fortunately (maybe unfortunately) I’m get used to it. And even I’m a big eater. Eating up from an appetizer to dessert is too hard. So I just order main dish and drink here.
Sachertorte is well known in Japan and many times I’ve eaten up but of course I wanted to try original one in Wien. The taste was bit different from Japanese one as I expected. Because a lots of food are changed the taste into suitable taste for local people. For Japanese people many food from other countries are too strong taste and oily and for other countries people Japanese original food is too weak taste. Especially when you see people eat sushi from other countries they rice side of sushi dip in soy sauce too much. Normally you just fish side dip in soy sauce just little bit and enjoy natural taste of the fish. Anyway I felt too much sugar from these sweets.
When you walk in Wien you see many horse-drawn carriages, Stefan and I felt sorry for the horses which works very hard but we decided to ride in a carriage. The horses took and showed me beautiful scenes in Wien. And it’s unforgettable. We both really thanked the horses. Thank you very very much.
As always time passes so quickly and especially when we have a beautiful time, we feel time passes much faster. Just few days staying in Wien. But I have a lots of memories. And specially I was touched by kindness of local people. And asking myself when I was in Japan and met some foreigners, was I enough kind to them?
