Our multi-cultural experience

We just got back from a two week trip to Germany. The first week was taken up with meetings for work… but we then took another week to travel around Germany (with a couple of day trips to other countries) with some of our co workers & their two year old daughter. Germany – an extremely timely/organized country was drastically different from our beloved Ireland where no one “makes a hurry”.
We did eat out a lot on our trip, and we usually try to eat authentic food in order to add to our whole cultural/European experience. Keeping this in mind, we ate Italian in France, South American/Mexican in Germany, and we found an Irish pub for lunch in Austria. We also ate at a lot of McDonald’s (Elyse needs her “chicken fries.”). It is amazing the amount of nonverbal communication needed to order cheeseburgers in English with someone who only speaks German. We did watch some T.V. while we were gone. We have now seen FRIENDS in French and German and Spongebob Squarepants in German. We are not sure what is funnier, Spongebob in Irish or German. We did have a “lovely” time, but we are very glad to be back in Ireland to hear the great accents and eat our fish and chips.