Banquet in Levoca

June 28, 2007 Thursday

Another very quiet day. Did my jaunt around the town – it is still there and hasn’t changed at all. There are a lot of people who come here on tour buses. As far as I can see, they all get off the bus and run to buy ice cream cones.

Tonight is the Banquet. (Every conference has an excursion and a banquet – the attendees spend the rest of the time from 9 am to 6:45 at the conference, conferencing!!)

The limitations of this place showed up in the food. They tried hard, but it was worse that normal banquet food. They started with smoked trout and stale rolls. (I guess that they were left over from breakfast, where they were quite good. Then we had turkey breast with asparagus – but they filled in with green beans, so everyone had exactly 2 spears of asparagus and several green beans. The white wine (or should I say vinegar?) was undrinkable. The red only slightly better. We all switched to beer.

The best thing was the really short, very cute, after dinner speech.