A Romantic night out?

I was very excited to visit another great place from Switzerland. We went to Säntis a huge mountain in Appenzell for an evening event. The event is called full moon dinner, because the mountain is so high you can see the moon even clearer and closer than ever and you have a dinner at the restaurant. Unfortunately it was very cloudy that the view was so bad we didn’t even see the moon at all. But that was just bad luck.

The cost for this are quite high. Two tickets incl. dinner were CHF 165.- (almost the same in dollar). This includes the transportation from the base station to the gipfel and the dinner.

Hmmm… The journey it selve started not god. At the station they told us that our reservation is canceled… But we haven’t cancelled it so it must be a missounderstanding. At the top we had the same discussion again. Very unorganized that’s not typical for Switerland. But finally we were sitted.

The Dinner it selfe was nothing special at all. You had a buffed for salad, main courses and dessert. Everythin self service. I’m not a massiv fan of buffed and this one was no mind changer. The quality of the food was ok but almost everything was very unhealthy and nothing special at all. That’s apitty you could do so much more with a location like this.

Locationwise how can I say it in a nice way… you feel back in the 80’s. I think if you would change just little thinks like having special decoration (and not a lamminiertes papier with sentences on it) and probably somebody who tells you more about full moon and the special thing about it the event would be super cool. Now it’s just ok but you don’t want to go again. The waitress there were also very unfriendly. You had to stop somebody if you wanted to order some drinks. Hellooo???? All in all I was not feeling welcome at all and just like a Massenabfertigung…

I’m sorry to say so many bad things about this evening but we were so excited and now it’s just like a waste of time and money…

The säntis is a very nice place to visite. Go at a day time when the weather is nice and eat before you go up.

Blind Cow in Zurich

German Version: http://saraliciousworld.blogspot.ch/2013/01/blinde-kuh.html#more
 

Who has not played the game when he was little? A cloth tied around so that you re not able to see nothing and then walking around guided by a friend. How it is to be blind? Once I did not see I was totally awkward and clumsy. So what I wanted to experience again and I have it!

Months ago, I booked a table at the Blind Cow in Zurich, a restaurant in which we are led by blind or visually impaired people to his table because the room has no light. Wow sounds exciting, and that's it. The reception area is illuminated that you can choose the menu. I noticed my menu because is ordered in the dark. Bags, mobile phones and watches were locked in that the room is completely dark.

Before the black curtain opened we waited nervously for our waitress Elizabeth. When she came to pick us up we arrived in a dark room and then we went in goose step into the restaurant. It was completely dark! You can’t see anything at all. Elisabeth led us to our table and reliably recorded the order. We sat there listened to the chatter in the restaurant. It seemed a lot louder than usual in a restaurants but I think that's because you are otherwise able to focus better, so we were delivered almost helpless to the noise. As our drinks arrived I was thinking: don’t splash it all over you face Sara!

The next challenge came immediately with the starters. Oh god how many times I had an empty fork in my mouth. And as no one could see what you are doing I have nimble fingers scanned the plates to see if there is some hidden salad otherwise had no chance. The main course smelled sooo tempting but cut meat without seeing anything? Challenge accepted!  Clever as I am now time * cough * I just speared the whole piece of meat and eat it slowly. It was absolutely Yum!

Fazid:

Blind people can’t see in the dark even if it seems like that

Prepare topics for your conversation

Styling isn’t important, nobody can see you!

Trust your waitress, she knows it best

At this point I would like to thank Elizabeth for the great evening.  She has probably the sweetest voice I've heard in a while!

Kisses from Saralicious