Me. Myself. And I.

I've recently seen too many of these games but never actually participated in any. This time I couldn't resist and asked Dora to send me her questions.

If you would like to take part, here are the rules.

1. Leave me a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I’ll email you five questions, of my determination not yours!
3. You update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

These were Dora's questions to me:

1. Name one unpopular (yet to be discovered by the tourist crowd) place in Europe that one should visit. Why?

Slovenia. That is where I spent my last holiday in August and I thought to be awesome. This tiny little country has it all: the Alps for hikers, mountain bikers and white water rafters. Ljubljana for culture, good studenty vibe, restaurants and night life. And the Adriatic sea for sun-lovers. It is still relatively cheap and unpopular plus definitely bohemian. (Deep down I'm thinking I should have written Budapest because I would love to show you and Nasty around! But then Budapest is, I think, pretty touristy...)

2. You went backpacking in South East Asia once. What surprised you most about the area?
You seriously want me to write a full list? It was a culture shock. My first time ever out of Europe. Here are the LITTLE things from Thailand:
-everyone eats with fork and spoon. the fork is not to be put in your mouth.
-chopsticks are only ever used to eat soup (?!)
-beer is drunk with ice-cubes
-you sit down in a bus. ticket-vendor guy comes over to sell you a ticket. you buy ticket. 1 minute later inspector guy gets up from his seat and comes over to check ticket. inspector guy tears ticket up.
-road-signs only apply for pedestrians
-everything is misspelt in english: toliet, upstirs, pleas....
Shall I go on? :)

3. What is the best dish you can cook?
I make an awesome Hungarian dish, called layered potatoes. It has no official recipe, kind of gets passed on word of mouth and goes roughly like this:

-cook 4 big potatoes in salty water. (30 mins) peel them, let them cool. hard-boil 4 eggs for about 15 minutes. peel them, let them cool. slice chorizo-type sausage into thin slices.
-mix a big box of sour-cream with 1 egg-yolk, salt and pepper in a bowl.
-spread some butter in a casserole-type dish.
-make layers of above ingredients in the following way into the dish: thin slices of potatoes, salt, slices of eggs and sausages. spread sour-cream mixture on top. Repeat it once more.
-finish off layers with sour-cream spread on top. add salt and pepper, maybe even some grated cheddar.
-put dish in pre-heated oven for 25 minutes.
-serve with gherkins.

4. When you are down, what is the best way to cheer you up?
I have a few coping methods. I'm very fortunate I can choose the one I best like whenever I think I should choose one:
-hanging out with the most fabulous friend in the world, Erika. she is one cheerful, positive bubble
-going to an art cinema to see a truly sad film
-cycling in town
-going clothes shopping to H&M, Zara, Mango, Pull&Bear and Stradivarius. those are my favourite shops
-blogging
-eating out
-drinking good cappuccino in a nice cafe and reading a book

5. What do you want out of life?
A healthy family somewhere, where it is mostly sunny and sophisticated. Somewhere I understand the language. Somewhere I can work between having children. Sharing the whole experience with someone I can laugh/talk/travel/have sex with.
Greedy. I know.