traveling food

i couldn't leave our trip without discussing the great food we had on our trip. for months beforehand i was craving the gyros and gelato we were going to have, while tommy had a good long list of the danish food he was looking forward to after the long hiatus since his mission. so we had many great food plans.

UNFORTUNATELY, the food in both iceland and denmark is terribly, terribly expensive! while we knew this in theory beforehand, it was still shocking to us when we realized we would be paying $30-$40 for every meal while we were there. this stopped us from trying whale and puffin in iceland (both around $50 a plate) but we still ate some very good food. we were glad to go to france where we could buy all our food from the crepe stands that charged the decent price of six euros for a crepe. (normally, i would have felt bad about spending that much on crepes for dessert, but not after being in scandinavia.) luckily for us, we generally had cheap breakfasts--we went to a grocery store in iceland and bought some muffins, while we were in denmark our hotels generally included breakfast (a FANTASTIC breakfast at some places), and we feasted on one-euro baguettes for breakfast every morning in paris.

our first dinner in iceland, we ate at a place called "icelandic fish and chips." it was RIGHT on the harbor--they catch the fish and bring it in and serve it. tommy even liked it, despite his anti-seafood leanings (we try and get along even though we do not have this in common). the second night we were there we ate at a thai restaurant, which was good but didn't really deserve a picture.

this is the aforementioned hut on the side of the cliff where we ate fish soup that we paid an arm and a leg for. it was really good though, and a great food experience. hellllooooo, iceland!

and then we quickly jump to denmark. here we are enjoying smorrabrod, the danish open-faced sandwiches that tommy always talks about.

and of course we had many, many danish pastries. um, so, so SO good!

no, this is not a traditional danish meal. this is a traditional MISSIONARY meal--a seven-eleven hot dog. my dad was so excited to try it. (tommy really wanted it though. this was even an actual seven-eleven he used to frequent while he was serving in this area.)

we introduced austin to the magic of magnum bars, and stopped at least four times to get them. the kind store owner here took our picture for us, without us even asking him to.

we spent our whole time in denmark trying to find a traditional danish restaurant with REAL DANISH FOOD that tommy kept talking about. turns out there aren't very many of those, and the ones that are in existence are very expensive. but our last night in copenhagen we found one and tommy and my dad got to try all the danish food they had been desiring. and i got my frikadeller like i'd wanted all along.

this is an example of us eating some of the amazing breakfasts that we got at our hotels. they put the continental breakfasts of american hotels to SHAME. and did you even KNOW that they sold nutella in tiny butter-pad sized packets? can you believe it???
and then on to france! it's pretty much just crepe,
after crepe,
after gelato,
after crepe.
but we also had many gyros (that i love love LOVE).

and even a giant hot dog sausage thing at a mini swap meet thing right next to the eiffel tower.

oh! i miss those crepes! oh, it was all so good. good thing we have a crepe maker (that we DEFINITELY need to use more) and thank goodness that america sells nutella for us to enjoy to our heart's content.