I'll leave it up to Daniel to tell you about our skiing experience, so I'll tell you a bit about some famous coffee shop in some famous hotel in Vienna. Apparently, if you go to Vienna, you just have to have Sachertorte at Sacher Cafe in Hotel Sacher.
Thanks to Wiki, here is a description of the cake: "The cake consists of two layers of dense, not overly sweet chocolate cake (traditionally a sponge cake) with a thin layer of apricot jam in the middle and dark chocolate icing with shreds of chocolate on the top and sides. It is traditionally served with whipped cream without any sugar in it because it is considered
too dry to be eaten on its own". The hotel registered a trademark for the cake and the recipe has been a well kept secret. So being typical tourists, we tried some Viennese coffee loaded with liqueur and some very dry and rather boring cake (which is why you need the liqueur in your coffee to make you feel better about paying so much for a dry cake). So, here's a picture of me and the cake :) What you don't see is us plotting ways of getting back at the Austrians for charging to take our coats!
Thanks to Wiki, here is a description of the cake: "The cake consists of two layers of dense, not overly sweet chocolate cake (traditionally a sponge cake) with a thin layer of apricot jam in the middle and dark chocolate icing with shreds of chocolate on the top and sides. It is traditionally served with whipped cream without any sugar in it because it is considered
too dry to be eaten on its own". The hotel registered a trademark for the cake and the recipe has been a well kept secret. So being typical tourists, we tried some Viennese coffee loaded with liqueur and some very dry and rather boring cake (which is why you need the liqueur in your coffee to make you feel better about paying so much for a dry cake). So, here's a picture of me and the cake :) What you don't see is us plotting ways of getting back at the Austrians for charging to take our coats!
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