16 Dec

The hotel had a free shuttle bus service into the city. From the drop-off point, Campo de' Fiori (the square with the Bruno statue) was only a few minutes away. From behind a florist we bought pizza from Forno, which charges pizza by weight. We bought half an eggplant pizza for €3.30 and it was really good. Rome has thin-crust pizza; further south they have thicker crusts and in the north it’s in the middle. [gallery columns="2" link="none" type="rectangular" ids="2397,2396"]...

18:25 / Campo de' Fiori / Food / Forno / Italian / Italy / Restaurants / Travel
16 Dec

Lunch was at a self-service place again. We got pumpkin risotto (€4.20), fish sauce/stock with a small, long, hollow pasta (€5.20) and a meat and mushroom tomato based sauce with a thick noodle pasta (€5.20). The risotto was a bit too cheesy and rich so I couldn’t finish it. At the shop there was a giant box of chocolate (6 blocks in a pack) of hazelnut chocolate for €14.90. A2 also bought some cavalucci biscuits. [gallery link="file" columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="2393,2394,2395"]...

18:25 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Italian / Italy / Restaurants / Travel
15 Dec

Our dinner was in the hotel restaurant again. Appetiser: salad with the red radish we saw displayed outside the restaurant last night, dressed with olive oil Entrée: penne bolognaise Mains: chicken with vegetables (capsicum, eggplant, broccoli) Dessert: frozen ice cream with almonds and a sticky, brown sauce drizzled on top. The waiter’s English was very good, because some people got the impression that the pasta was the main course, although the serving was small. So a few ordered another serve of pasta before they realised we were getting chicken for the main. [caption id="attachment_2387"...

18:20 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Italian / Italy / Restaurants / Travel / Venice
15 Dec

When we got out of the Glass factory we looked for a place to eat. Mum wanted to get take away pizza because she didn’t want to pay a cover charge, but we ended up eating in a restaurant anyway. We got seafood tagliatelle (€16), fisherman’s risotto (€14) and prosciutto pizza (€9.50). The bread we were given was rolled and looked like mantou. The risotto was tastier than it looked, probably because of the cheese, and it had the more chewy texture. Although the serves were smaller than...

18:20 / Food / Italian / Italy / Restaurants / Travel / Venice
14 Dec

We joined the €66 excursion tonight: ‘Venetian Night Out with Dinner’. We met in the lobby at 5:50pm and proceeded to the ‘parking island’ by coach. From there we caught a water taxi to Venice city. We were quite squashed inside the taxi. Two people had to stand outside with the driver. We opened up the roof of the back part of the boat so the people there could stand up. Because the restaurant was small, we were split into two tables for four and one for six. Appetisers: prawns...

18:13 / Food / Italian / Italy / Restaurants / Travel / Venice
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