Behold.
Ooooh, wow. We ate so much gelato. It was all so yummy, but unfortunately we only took photos of half of the gelato we ordered....but get ready anyway:
In Florence, I had peach and Brad combined chocolate and orange gelato.
In Bologna I had strawberry and Brad had ricotta.....I know....
In Florence we got caught in a tourist trap place by accident. We paid 11 euros for these - oops. They were good though - mint chocolate and pistachio.
In Venice after our lunch from my previous post, we had gelato that came highly recommended. I had caramel and Brad had chocolate orange.
Again in Venice - I had lemon and Brad can't remember what he had! This time I shouldn't have gotten gelato, I was already full of wine and pasta from dinner.....oh well, it was worth it - the lemon flavour was incredible.
In Rome - these were two of the best ones we had - dark chocolate. It was like eating a cold, creamy not-too-sweet chocolate dream.
In Rome - this was another of my favourites - grapefruit!! One of the best cones EVER. Brad had watermelon. We ate these as we watched a French music festival in the Piazza Farnese - right up the block from our apartment.
In Rome again - I had cappuccino - so good, not too sweet. Brad had zabaglione - which is like custard. Very eggy - weird. He liked ordering the strange flavours.
If you found the right place, you got super yummy gelato for cheap. Maybe three euro for a small cone. And no worries about getting the smallest size - they always seemed to pile it on.When we got back here a friend told me to go to this "gelato" place downtown. I think we were pretty desperate because we weren't thinking. This place was right in the tourist zone and it cost a fortune ($15) for two cones. It wasn't gelato either - it was bad, chalky ice cream. Super disappointing.
Ah, Rome. I miss you already.
4 comments:
I LOVE this post. I LOVE gelato!
I have actually had gelato in Italy! When I was in Nice a couple of years ago, I actually was able to take the train over to the border to a small town in Italy. We spent four hours there: time for the market, walking around the old part of town, and time for gelato! I also had a lot of good gelato in the south of France. They are close to Italy, so can figure it out.
That sucks that your Vancouver gelato wasn't good. I actually just had gelato tonight. There's a great place in my neighbourhood, that I *think* is pretty authentic. And only $8 for two ppl! They always have a wide array of flavours - even zabaglione shows up!
ummmm, I LOVE how much gelato you ate. It is as it should be.
I'm super impressed that you took pictures every time and documented everything! Too hilarious. Looks amazing. I've been thinking about getting some gelati from a place down the street. Maybe I should.
Rawbean, you should totally get some gelato and do a blog post about it!
Claire - That'show the whole trip was, well except for about soon.
Christielli - I remember that story! Do we know each other that well yet? Ha!Ha!
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