We were actually planning to rent a car and drive around the island, but since that hadn't happened yet, we had to rent a steam train. Did you notice, by the way, how smoothly I adopted the flashfuture technique from season 4 of the already tiresome TV series Lost? A flashfuture is like a flashback, only in reverse, into the future. Do you know, by the way, what setting your teeth on edge actually means? This concept definitely has a connection to the fact that I can't eat a lot of apples or berries. The acids in them make your teeth ache when you chew, and then for several hours you can't put anything in your mouth at all. Although good old Ushakov disagrees with me.
To set one's teeth on edge — to get an astringent sensation in the mouth after eating something sour or tart, or to tire one's mouth out by prolonged chewing of something.
I was joking about renting the steam train. But not about the renting (we did rent it, at least one carriage for sure) but about the steam train — it was fake, drove on the road on inflatable tires, and possessed an internal combustion engine. Not enough romance for 9 euros (that's how much one ticket to the lake and back cost). But at the lake itself, there was plenty of it to spare. I visited there three whole times, even if not entirely of my own free will, but there's nothing to regret anyway. Had I known that it's barely 5 km from the hotel to the lake, I would have walked.
