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PaizoCon Europe wrap-up
Aug. 27th, 2021 08:19 pmThursday: Had enough time to get to the Greek cart in Hillsboro, only to discover that it was not opening at the given time. One of the other food cart operators volunteered that the Greek place had recently had someone quit and its hours had become unpredictable.
Central Hillsboro has a one-way street grid, so I had to walk my bike along the block to get to a street going my way. Halfway there, I found one of those tiny places which is just a window for placing orders with a kitchen right behind it built into the side of the building. It's called Abu Rasham Express, and it serves Mediterranean food including recognizably Greek dishes, so I got a pita plate from there.
Friday: Had the second half of the pita plate for lunch. For dinner, we picked up German food from Gustav's. I tried the sausage plate, and the wild boar sausage was a definite winner.
Saturday: Timed it just right to get to the central Beaverton pod after stopping by Tous les Jours, which I have since learned is actually a global South Korean French bakery chain. And it is not even the biggest global South Korean French bakery chain out there. Over the next few days I would find the yuzu hand pie to be good, the blueberry cream cheese filled bread roll to be like having a bagel adulterated with a lot of air, and the fancy macarons to be tasty but nearly all the same despite allegedly being different flavors.
At the pod, I picked up some traditional cod fish and chips from The Frying Scotsman, which I would have half of for lunch.
Sunday: Had the other half of the fish and chips for lunch. Couldn't talk the SO into getting Italian food so we had homemade spaghetti for dinner instead.
The gaming went well too. Nobody recognized Pigathia, or at least nobody admitted to it. Somebody did recognize the token for Ahiru in my last game of the con. The game to brag about turned out to be the Thursday afternoon one, where I was part of a party that made it through a level 7-10 adventure with no healer. (We did have a wizard who did amazing work with counterspells, a couple of smart prepared spell choices on the part of my wizard, and a veritable ton of healing potions.)
Central Hillsboro has a one-way street grid, so I had to walk my bike along the block to get to a street going my way. Halfway there, I found one of those tiny places which is just a window for placing orders with a kitchen right behind it built into the side of the building. It's called Abu Rasham Express, and it serves Mediterranean food including recognizably Greek dishes, so I got a pita plate from there.
Friday: Had the second half of the pita plate for lunch. For dinner, we picked up German food from Gustav's. I tried the sausage plate, and the wild boar sausage was a definite winner.
Saturday: Timed it just right to get to the central Beaverton pod after stopping by Tous les Jours, which I have since learned is actually a global South Korean French bakery chain. And it is not even the biggest global South Korean French bakery chain out there. Over the next few days I would find the yuzu hand pie to be good, the blueberry cream cheese filled bread roll to be like having a bagel adulterated with a lot of air, and the fancy macarons to be tasty but nearly all the same despite allegedly being different flavors.
At the pod, I picked up some traditional cod fish and chips from The Frying Scotsman, which I would have half of for lunch.
Sunday: Had the other half of the fish and chips for lunch. Couldn't talk the SO into getting Italian food so we had homemade spaghetti for dinner instead.
The gaming went well too. Nobody recognized Pigathia, or at least nobody admitted to it. Somebody did recognize the token for Ahiru in my last game of the con. The game to brag about turned out to be the Thursday afternoon one, where I was part of a party that made it through a level 7-10 adventure with no healer. (We did have a wizard who did amazing work with counterspells, a couple of smart prepared spell choices on the part of my wizard, and a veritable ton of healing potions.)
