Since visiting Germany last month I've had an obsession with spaghetti ice cream. I vowed to find some in Hockenheim but failed.
Hockenheim was in the middle of nowhere. Our hotel had fields around it and a big SAP building, and thats about it. We walked into the local little town some evenings for food and the town was a new but old looking place. I wish I'd had my camera. Cobbled streets with wonky houses and a few restaurants here and there. The food was all really good and it was nice wandering around there and taking a walk back to the hotel.
After the race on Sunday we headed to Hungary the next morning and had the afternoon off. Our hotel was adjoined to a shopping mall so guess what I did l that afternoon... :) I found lots of shiny things which I couldn't resist buying. Bit of an obsession with jewellery at the moment. On a different note, check out Stephen Websters jewellery. Awesome! My current favourite!
Anyway the mall was a bit crazy. The top floors were all pretty normal but the basement was full of random bright coloured illuminous things. And the staff were all really friendly. I had one girl chat to me as if I were a long long friend and proceeded to show me a bruise on her leg from a boat trip last week... Ermmmm ok. Should have sent the boys down there, I'm sure they would have appreciated all the girls chatting more than I did!
That night we all had burgers and beer at the hotel to celebrate the fastest pitstop of 2.3 seconds.
Then it was back to building a garage again for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.
I've never had goulash before. To me, it sounded weird. But one of my friends told me to try it so I thought I'd better find some Hungarian food this week. We found a quaint little Hungarian restaurant with a pianist in the corner and walls covered in old newspapers and random things stuck to the wall. I loved the interior, will have to remember that as I'd like to decorate a room like that someday! I had venison goulash and were told to try a cheese paste thing for starters. It was all pretty good. I'm a bit fussy with meat and hadn't really had venison before but it was better than I expected. Still prefer beef though!
That night I found spaghetti ice cream. The guys I was with must have thought I was mental being so excited about some horrible looking plate of pasta that contained ice cream. Got them hooked on it too tho :) I can't remember if I mentioned it before but it's ice cream that looks like a bowl of pasta, but it's just spaghetti shaped ice cream with cream in the middle and strawberry sauce on top! Yum!!
The last two weeks has gone pretty quick in a way. I've had lots of nice dinners with some awesome people so I guess that made up for the amount of time we spent at work and to forget the tiredness!
I'm sad tho... As it was someone I got to know quite wells last race with us. I was looking forward to more random explorations with him... But hopefully I'll catch him and his wife around the UK instead soon! Will just have to find random places at home instead!
So the week went by and we won the race with Lewis taking pole in quali and winning! Woohoo!
A good way to finish before the break!
We packed up in a massive rain shower and a few of us looked like we just stepped out of the shower with our clothes on.
We finally got finished at about 12:30 and relieved, all went back to the hotel. I went to McDonald's and had the intention of going straight to bed. On my way back, I bumped into a couple of the mechs who were telling me about a random cool bar earlier in the day... And they managed to persuade me to run upstairs get changed and go out. I'm glad I did as the place was nuts! When K told me there were rabbits across the ceiling, a big eagle thing with big boobs and you can drink in someone's bathroom I thought he was joking! It was like being in a massive house with weird random decorations everywhere. I felt like we'd walked into a random house party and we didn't know anyone!
A shot and a couple of drinks (I'm a cheap date) later we stumbled back to the hotel for an hours sleep and then got on the plane home. I was glad to be home! Since stepping into my house I haven't yet moved and have watched about 5 films. Thank god for Netflix!
Looking forward to finding random things to do in the UK for the next 5 weeks :) my next race is Singapore so I've got a while of no travelling again!
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