The last post

What a wonderful week! I have finally had a good look around the last part of Germany I hadn’t seen before and really enjoyed what the Black Forrest has to offer

Unfortunately, my week ended on a sour note! I was in Freiburg yesterday to have a last look round the beautiful old streets and alleys and have a typical Baden meal, I went back to a restaurant I had seen on the first day and I felt as though this would be the place to end the week.  I thought it was my intuition that drew me there but I must have been wrong – my intuition doesn’t normally play tricks with me!

It turns out that the restaurant is world famous – the ‘Sickleschmiede’.  I don’t know what to expect from something that is world famous but I know what I got; pre cooked and pre cut potatoes out of a bag that tasted like rubber and ,heaven help us, they don’t make their own ‘Spetzle’.  It was the type of food you expect to be served at a motorway service station and not in Freiburg

It is unfortunate but this happens all over the world when dealing with tourism; a restaurant owner who just wants to make money, tired and indifferent waiters and a cook that is on the lowest wage hardly speaks the language and doesn’t know what he is cooking! Is it their fault or is this a result of mass tourism and price wars?

Nowadays, everyone wants a cheap holiday and the best service – how does that work?

Years ago, people travelled to broaden their minds and learn more – today I can travel to almost anywhere and eat the same food, drink the same beer and read the same newspaper that I have at home – surely, this isn’t what we want – or is it?