Apparently we got some food poisoning at dinner on the 23rd, so yesterday we stayed in the apartment except for a few minutes that I walked to a small Stop and Go market around the block, where I bought another container of ZuZu yogurt, muesli, two loaves of bread (1 white and 1 dark), and another container of fish roe salad.
Suzette suffered worst than me. I was able to eat and ate muesli and yogurt for brunch and ate four slices of bread with fish roe salad for dinner.
We went to bed around 10:00.
This morning we awakened at 7:30 in better shape and packed for our trip and then made breakfast. I diced a potato into small cubes, sliced and diced about 3 oz. of onion, sliced four slices of salami and diced about ½ lb. of roasted pork. Suzette sliced two slices of tomato and put one each on a plate. Then she sautéed the salami to develop some fat and after removing the crisp fried salami strips she sautéed the other ingredients and fried two eggs for me and one for her in the pan with the other ingredients and then piled them on top of the tomato slice and we finished the dish by sprinkling the fried salami strips over the pile.
I poured glasses of apple and sour cherry juice and we ate a delicious breakfast.
Aaron arrived at about 9:00 and we gathered up our gear and Monica picked us up on the street at around 9:30.
She drove us out of Bucharest and stopped for gas and to pay a road tax to leave Bucharest for the car.
She then drove us north into the Transylvanian Mountains to Sinaia to a ski resort hotel and restaurant across the street from the bobsleigh run for lunch. Suzette ordered a bowl of pork and potato soup that was partially milk based, I ordered the house sausages, Monica ordered a platter of pork rind and pork fat strips to teach us about Romanian cuisine. The pork rind was not pickled, so it was very chewy, but the pork fat was very soft and appeared to be fat cut from a ham.
Aaron ordered cabbage rolls and a grilled smoked duck breast that was quite tasty.
Monica also ordered a chicken soup with fresh noodle strips in it and a fried trout battered in cornmeal.
For dessert Aaron and Monica ordered fried doughnuts garnished with sour cream and blueberry compote. I ordered a Stella Artois and we split two bottles of water. The most interesting part of the meal for me were the two small glasses of blueberry liquor that Monica ordered for us at the beginning of the meal as an aperitif.
After lunch we drove on to Bran and arrived a bit after 4:00. The castle closed at 4:00 so we settled in to our lovely rooms at the Casa di Bran.
We had a lovely view of the country side and the castle from our room.
Here is a photo.
Suzette wanted a massage, so the hotel arranged for a masseuse to come to our room at 8:00. She gave both Suzette and me a massage. It helped both of us feel infinity better. We were happy to skip dinner.
I can not describe how much better I feel.
It looks like I had another good day in the market. The tech stocks and oil went up.
We get CNN and BBC news on the TV plus all the news on WiFi.
Bon Appetit
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