Thats not Pasta Sauce!!!

When travelling on a budget, you tend to take as many shortcuts as you can with food so that you've got more money for the fun stuff. This often involved eating Ham and Cheese sanga's for lunch and Pasta with Dolmio sauce for dinner. There has been occassions though, when this goes horribly wrong!

The first of these occassions was in Piran, where myself and Dan hit the local supermarket and bought the pasta, but couldnt find any sauce. After some looking, we found something called Ajvar Sauce, which had no english written on it. Now, it was red and chunky looking, so to us, it looked like pasta sauce...we were very, very wrong. Even with a gulp of beer at every bight, we couldnt get this stuff down! We found out later, from Dan's family, that Ajvar sauce is in fact a capsicum dip sauce to be used with meat...you live you learn!

When departing from the standard menu above, one of the other regulars on the travellers menu is the Kebab...in fact it gets a little too much of a run. So far Budapest has the number one vote for Kebabs...although that may well be because thats where we were most often drunk?? Dunno.

Speaking of drinking, that has of course played a large part in our trip so far. I think my favourite beer so far has been Budweisser Budvar which is from the south of Czech. Now dont get this confused with the American company which sells beer under the same name - this stuff is infinately better!

For the most part a beer has set us back about a pound (about $2.50 aus) a pint which I am more then happy with, although there has been on occassion cheaper stuff...I think the cheapest was about 40p!

Its about this time I should mention my ever increasing gut...