The trip of a lifetime

After a 6-hour delay, we arrive to our destination. The station is part of a shopping centre filled with delicious cakes and pastry. We are angry and tired, but anger seems to win and we end up cueing up to get our cakes, they look yummy, big and cheap. The girl at the counter doesn’t understand the word ‘cream’ and everything comes to a halt for a few seconds. How bizarre! considering that  ‘cream’ is at the foundation of all things sweet and scrumptious. I goggle it, for the sake of it, and it comes up in several European languages, pretty much the same in all of them, Krém, crema (in at least three languages), krema (also in several languages), kremo (in Esperanto), kreem, kerma, crème, creme, κρέμα, even in Greek and Russian it’s the same (if you can read the cyrillic alphabet).