My half-day out

[wiseheart]

Well, actually just the morning, and even that included some serious grocery shopping, but I enjoyed it very much anyway.

My friend Eenie and I have this ritual that we go to some fancy café once in every summer, and that was today. Not because of the coffee itself, which is usually overpriced, but for the environment and for the relaxing and stuff. This time we went to the Café Frei in the Savoy Park shopping centre. As you can see, it is a very pretty place:



I had a Wiener Kapuziner and she had a Black Forest coffee dessert, which looked delicious; I'll try that one next time.

And since we were next to the Auchan supermarket anyway, I did a serious amount of shopping, too. Eenie very generously offered to chauffeur me and my acquisitions home, so I bought all those things that are heavy and hard to haul home on the tram: cleaning things, mineral water, boxed milk, lots of yogurt and the likes. So we are covered for quite some time with those.

Fortunately, I didn't have to cook today. We had the last of the leftover soup and the veggie burgers, plus some banana bread and even some ice cream, which was nice. Tomorrow I'll have to think of something. Perhaps some lemon chicken will be in order. We'll see.

Edit: I just got the e-mail that one of our retired colleagues died last night. We weren't exactly friends, but we've worked together for near twenty years and she lived two streets away, so we often took the bus home together and chatted frequently. She was quite a few years older than I am, but still...

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for such an ending of a lovely day :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Sad, but considering the speed with which my generation gets older, not entirely unexpected, either.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I love the picture. Would love to see more of your city where you go.

Sorry about your colleague.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is exceedingly rare for me to get out of the house in these days, save for grocery shopping and such things. A shame, really, my city has so much to offer. I'll try to hunt down pictures of places I actually have visited in the past and show off with them. :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Heck, even the grocery store. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You want a pic of the grocery store? *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Sure. :)

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Sadly, we have reached that time in life when, to quote movie Elrond, "Our allies grow thin".

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

It's always sad to loose old colleagues! Our list of allies grows thin- that's sad but true.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes. As Agatha Christie says in one of the Miss Marple books, there are fewer and fewer people who still remember.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is very true. Imagine what it is like for Mum, who's the only one left in the family of her generation.

[meathiel]

Mein Beileid.

Was ist ein Wiener Kapuziner?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Danke.
Wiener Kapuziner ist ein ziemlich starker, dunkler Kaffee mit einer riesigen Haube Schlagsahne obendrauf. Wie der Kaffee gemacht wird, habe ich keine Ahnung.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What a lovely looking cafe — it would really feel like a decadent treat. And hurrah for the bonus of being able to do a good deal of household shopping on the trip too.

I am sorry to read of your colleague's death. It is hard to lose people like that; because it is another link to our younger selves gone, I think.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Very true. As for the café, I hope I'll be able to take Mum there one day. She should be able to board those low-floor trams — if only she could build up enough strength to walk to the tram stop and to the café and back. The problem is, every time when we're almost there, comes a heat wave, or a really bad phase of her arthritic knee, and then we have to start from Square One again. *sigh*