BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

My nephew Diego challenges me to write the blog in English. So I go.

One of my favourite moments in the days I´ve spent in Savannah is breakfast time. “Breakfast in America” was a famous song by Supertramp. That´s what I have every day. Most of the Inn´s guests stay just a few days so they change continuously. They come from all over the United States and Canada. One of the days there was a phillipine family so it was more a United Nations´ breakfast.

It usually starts at 8:30 and it ends at 10:00. We all sit in the big table of the dinning room of the Inn and enjoy Elaine´s food. Natural juice, coffee or tea, yoghourt with fruits, one big dish and a final dessert. The big dish varies; sometimes it is an Italian bruschetta or sometimes a more American dish with eggs and grits. Grits is a “puré” made of corn that is typical southern food.

The food is delicious but what I really enjoy is the talk. The first question is where are you from but it expands to a lot of subjects: recommendations in Savannah, Spain and Europe in general, travels, jobs, Obama´s project about Health Care,…

I can´t remember everybody but these are some of them:

- A couple from San Antonio that runs a Bed&Breakfast there.

- A couple of Canadians. They are retired now. He was an officer in the Canadian Army and afterwards worked in a bank. She was married previously with a man from Syria and it was a complete disaster. I went with them to have dinner in one of the best restaurants in Savannah, Elizabeth´s, that is included in a list of one of the 1,000 Places to Visit Before Dye.

- A couple of gay men. One of them was in the Navy and the other was a student. I don´t realise their condition, but Elaine told us the day after, because the Canadian man had asked them about the policy on gay subject in the US Army.

- A couple in their honeymoon. They left the Inn one day before expected because she thought the house was haunted. Afterwards I slept in the same room and I didn´t see or listening anything at all, maybe the spirit doesn´t speak spanish.

- A young sculptor from Pasadena and his girlfriend, a cloth designer, from New York.

- A mid-twenty man from New Jersey that has been fired from a financial company and was travelling through the south to think what he would like to do the rest of his life.

- A couple of old ladies from Arkansas that had come for the Homes and Gardens Tour. This is celebrated one weekend a year in Savannah and you can visit several private houses that open their doors. By chance I was in the same tour so we did it together.

- A couple of Canadian men. They have travelled to Florida to pick a friend´s car and they have to drive it back to Toronto, but they were not in a hurry. It was a convertible red car. They plan to visit a lot of cities in their way back.

- A couple from Sarasota (Florida). He plays the french horn in an orchestra and she is music teacher in a school.

- A couple of phillipines that live in Atlanta and were visiting Savannah with two relatives.
- A nice couple from Baltimore. They recommend me to go to Washington for the Cherry Blossom. It is similar to the Jerte´s cherryes but in DC.

- And couples from Atlanta, Nebraska, Alabama, Chicago,…Usually they spend a few days in Savannah or just they stopped here for one day in a travel somewhere, usually to Florida.

As you see it is really Breakfast in America. This is another way of travelling. I met people from several places but I stay in the same place, even in the same table.

Inn at 909 Lincoln St. Savannah. March 31st 2010.