A Postcard a Day - Tuesday 15 Sept 2015 T for...Bavarian breakfast and... ice cream

Good Morning and Good Tuesday!

I'm linking up with Elizabeth's T for Tuesday blog. Anything drink related is allowed (and not just tea).
So my offering this week is a postcard (of course) with a drink in it. 

It says (in German) 'Greetings from Bayern'. Bayern is Bavaria in English. It's from Maria who lives in Muenchen (Munich), the largest city in Bavaria. 

The card depicts a Bavarian breakfast. Well, says Maria, call it brunch.  Apart from the pretzel, I don't think I would fancy any of that in the morning, would you?

Maria writes that she works at the reception of a Youth Hostel and has done for many years. She is also studying Psychology for a bachelor degree.

The stamps she used are quite nice:

 I won't say anything about the tulip but the other stamp that reads  Ruhr.2010 – Kulturhauptstadt Europas. It was the name of the campaign in Germany's Ruhr region that earned its recognition as a European Capital of Culture in 2010. This was the first time a region was considered, as Essen represented all 53 towns in the region in the application. 

Now that we've had (German) breakfast... how about some ice cream?
Our friends Eusebio and Antonia have an ice cream shop in Baza. He makes the most beautiful Italian ice cream with all natural ingredients. Yumm!
Often we go after church and have an ice cream (and a catch-up chat of course).

This is DH with a lovely ice cream. Eusebio let us look behind the scenes...

He started with a sort of cakey layer that was drenched in liquor. He sprinkled sugar on top.

Then with a hot iron caramelized it in seconds. This was set aside to cool.

Then we moved to the icecream machine and a whole bucket of cream was poured in. 

The cake with the caramelized sugar was put in the bottom of a container and then ice cream extruded from the machine on top of it. 

Several layers were made this way, very fast as the stuff has to stay cold. (Spot DH with a spoon at the ready to spoon up the 'dregs'!)

The result was this. ('Here is one that I made earlier')

Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is....

So I'll leave you all salivating and I'll be back tomorrow, when I link up with WOYWW.

Blessings,

Lisca

A Postcard a Day - Sunday 13 Sept 2015 A colorful modern and a local modest church building

Good Morning! Good Sunday!

In my collection of postcards there are many churches, as churches are often an important landmark in a particular city. Churches can be beautiful buildings too.

I usually show you a church on a Sunday. Today it is not a card I got through Postcrossing, but one a colleague sent me from Barcelona while she was there on holiday. It is a detail of one of the towers of the Sagrada Familia:

The Sagrada Familia is a large roman catholic church (minor basilica) in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain),designed by Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi.

Construction of Sagrada Família had commenced in 1882 and Gaudí became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted his last years to the project, and at the time of his death at age 73 in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Família's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, only to resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026, the centenary of Gaudí's death.

The local church we go to here in Baza is very small. It's not a traditional church building as such. We rent the venue. But it's not the building that makes a church.... It's the people.

Here is my DH saying hello (or goodbye) to someone outside the door of the church.

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday and a good rest.

See you all tomorrow,

God bless,

Lisca