Yesterday we (Simon, Troels and me) arrived in Israel for a workshop to come in Haifa on Monday. After a some initial trouble with my hand luggage, which turned out to be 1,5 kg to heavy (the max is 8 kg at Cimber Sterling, ridiculous) and had to be checked in, I had a semi-pleasant four hours flight.
In Tel-Aviv airport we cued for an hour to get passed the border check and tried to get hold of the car we booked just yesterday, creating some confusion as we didn’t which company it would be with (was booked through some broker that hadn’t told us yet). Also we were in need for some food, which turned out quite difficult as everything was closing down at about three in the afternoon … yes, we didn’t know about Sabbath! Though I quickly remembered good old John Goodman from the best movie ever … The Big Lebowsky … nothing goes on Saturdays … and apparently you prepare for nothing goes quite in advance … anyways, also the train and busses in Jerusalem didn’t work, half for the city was locked down … quite an impression. Also the Jewish robes and hats left quite an impression … just like one knows from the movies.
Still we had a little walk, some Jerusalem Kebab (which turned out to be meatballs and sorted salad on a plate), and found some activity in the non-Jewish quarters in the old town.
Today we’ll have a proper city walk/tour and head out for Jericho and the dead sea afterwards …
This month the cancellation of my very first domain finally took place … samedia.de, home for my small business / self-employment adventure for over ten years. After I decided to close the business down when moving to Denmark, I also made the decision that I could save a few bucks by ending the contract for the domain. And now it’s finally done!
Funny / strange thing is … it was immediately bought by an estonian domain broker … for whatever reason?!
But apparently the name seems to be interesting for others …
That made me check a few other possibilities …
.asia – free
.at – free
.be – free
.biz –Â free
.cc – well it’s in Chinese!?
.ch – free
.com – reserved, but dead
.co.uk – some domain broker
.de – the mentioned estonian domain broker
.es – free
.eu – some Greek web service thingy
.info – webpage of some church
.me – free
.me.uk – free
.mobi – some domain broker
.net – same as eu
.nl –Â reserved, but dead
.org – forward to some (strange) salvation army page
.org.uk – free
.tv – some video production site
I guess that could go on forever, but I still do not see the brokering point …
Quite a nice feeling, I have to admit! Those who follow this blog will know that it’s my most recently spare time project … an 1:50 ATLAS LEGO® model!
Unfortunately LEGO® was not willing to support me in this project so I had to manage it with the help of the HEP group at NBI alone.
… is the name of the restaurant that has been rated “The World’s Best” both in 2010 and 2011, located in the Copenhagen Harbour.
In addition it is the restaurant that Heike and me got invited to by my family for both our 30th birthdays. And after finally getting a table and a three months waiting time we finally had our evening yesterday. Actually we happend to have a night! I reserved the table for 19h30 and we left the place at about 0h30 in the night.
And what should I say it was certainly an extraordinary experience!
We had in total 24 dishes and nine different juices (as we decided to go for the non-alcoholic menu). Eleven starters along with a red apple juice like nothing we’ve ever tasted, before we were even asked for our choice of menu and drinks for the night. The actual twelve-course menu spread from “Fallen Apple” over “Onions and thyme” and “The hen and the egg” to “Walnut and berries”. Â An in case you wonder about my math … we got an extra dish as we expressed slight dislike towards one of the dishes :)
In general, I have to say that not just in variety of food and ideas, but also in our personal like/dislike in taste we had a wide spread. Most of the dishes were extremely surprising and great, but as usual one doesn’t like everything. That’s the good thing about having a lot of dishes …
As a final judgement I guess I have to say that it has been a once in a life-time evening … meaning that I am very happy we did it, but I am not sure if I would spend that kinda money again.
The eleven starters
Malt flatbread and juniper (it was actually already in our table flower pot from the beginning)
Nasturtium and snail (a snail in an eatable flower)
(fried moss served on a moss plate)
Leek and seaweed butter (fried leek root stuffed with seaweed)
Blue mussel (blue mussels served with a dressing in an eatable shell)
Crispy pork and black current
Fjord shrimp and browned butter (to be eaten on ice and alive)
Rye bread, chicken skin, peas and lovage (kind of a toast with fried chicken skin)
Pickled and smoked quails egg
Radish, soil and grass (selection of radish in a cream bread crumb dressing looking like soil)
Toast, herbs, smoked cod roe and vinegar
The twelve + 1 menu dishes
Apple and Jerusalem artichoke, Garden sorrel and coriander (an apple looking like fallen of a tree in a coriander sauce)
Scallop and grains, watercress and beech nut (boiled de-hydrated scallop along with other things)
Stone crab and seaweed, beach mustard and rape seed
Vegetable and butter milk (salad like dish, with local vegetables)
Onion and thyme, goose berry juice (fried onions with thyme in a goose berry juice)
Cabbage and fresh cheese (salad like dish with a self-made cheese)
Celeriac and truffels (slowly fried knob celery with a crust along with truffels)
The hen and the egg (a fry-it-yourself egg sunny side up with herbs and a potato chip)
Beef cheeks, wild mushrooms and greens from the hedgerow
“Gammel dansk” and wood sorrel (sorrel with traditional danish schnaps)
Pear tree! Â (???)
Rhubard and juniper
Walnut and berries (walnut ice cream, walnut foam with frozen berries dust)
