Is this the place to tell my eel story?

My husband fell asleep on a beach on Cape Cod (no, not in Europe but somewhat relevant). The tide came in and woke him up rather abruptly so he stumbled back to the car and drove home. When he got out of the car he was quite startled to find he had been sitting on a dead eel that someone had thrown in through the open window at the beach.

I told this story the next day to my friend the fishmonger and he wrapped up a smoked eel for me to bring home as a present.

Amazing that spiteful nitpickers (StCirq)have time to pick apart every word in a post. Constrast this with how nicely quokka corrected my misspelling. I post to benefit travellers with interesting items, not to have them picked apart. No I have absolutely NOTHING to sell (nukesafe) so please do not read any of my posts US or abroad. I guess the internet brings out the best and worst in people just buzzing.

I told this story the next day to my friend the fishmonger and he wrapped up a smoked eel for me to bring home as a present.>>

perhaps we could all try this, Nikki! I can get smoked eel here but it is expensive - luckily you don't need much of it for a starter with some smoked salmon and nice bread.

I've never had jellied eels, though it's a popular delicacy around London, or it was, 50 years ago.

SateechL - The furthest north I've got in Germany so far is Hannover, though we've been many times to visit our friends who live in the Pfalz. It sounds as if we've missed out by not going to Bremen; I must put it on my list!

First I found this thread interesting.
Then I realized what an eel is - indeed we do eat ' anguilles au vert' in Belgium. Still on a lot if menus but I don't like it.
Then I Found strange the advertising fir the blog.
Then again I found the list quite a show off, esp with the remark about the buzz.
Maybe it is my not understanding English that well.
But the last stroke was the attack on StCirq.
I guess I don't understand how one makes a buzz.
So OP I wish you the best with your trips and your blogs. Don't broadcast too much that everything you see is exotic you may like a fool.
But since I won't be reading your blog and will probably abstain from much more commenting your thread it is no big deal.

I am not sure where OP traveled, but Bad Zwischenahn is not located on the North Sea but 60kms away from the coast.
The lake of Bad Zwischenahn, the "Zwischenahner Meer", described as one of the "largest, deepest in Germany" is neither large nor deep. But less than 6 square kms large and 6 meters deep. That's 18 feet.

@Cowboy - yes, the OP does seem to be given to exaggeration.

<<starter with some smoked salmon and nice bread.>> smoked eel is nice on some dark rye bread with scrambled egg and chives.

I know that this will sound patronising [sorry Sateesh] but I suspect that english may not be the OP's first language. Some of us here no just how difficult it is to get the nuances, even in a second language we speak well, and how much harder on a public forum where our lapses are there for all to see.

I for one am grateful to Sateesh for him pointing out a part of Germany to me that I've never thought of going to before. Buzz or no buzz? I don't really care.

What I have learned from this thread is that no matter how honorable your intentions in providing information on your travels, there will always be some people who will pick it apart and denigrate you. The reason I will continue to post my travel experiences is because of travelers like annhig who appreciate reading travel posts. For the spiteful ones in this thread, PLEASE DO NOT READ MY TRAVEL BLOG. I hope I never hear from you so that I can spend my time travelling and not dealing with nasty petty minded nit pickers.

<i>SateeshL on Dec 30, 16 at 10:37pm
not dealing with nasty petty minded nit pickers.</i>

Picking nits is a time-honored tradition on the Fodor's Forum, particularly by Europeans. I am surprised that the Dutch guys from Rotterdam and Leiden have not heaped on you. They get on me all the time.

Thanks for posting.

Thanks spaarne. Guess I stumbled on a nest of hornets thinking it was a Travel Advice site offering genuine tips from travelers to off-the-beaten track destinations. Some of the nitpickers turned out to post such detailed trip blogs that the only thing missing was how often they visited the restroom each day on their trip ;-)