so it seems my time on the internet is permanently cut short, until i get myself a computer, so in short, i am a week into my sojourn in florence, and it remains rather food orientated...
savoury wise i had one of the best meals i've every had yesterday, fresh green tagliatelle, fresh rainbow trout, cooked in a bag with onions and tomatoes, its was melt in your mouth, curl up your toes, arch ya back fantastic...
apart from that the fruit here is immense, the peaches are the size of watermelons, and the bananas, well this is a family blog..
the biggest differentiation between each day is what dolci i get in a morning, pastries, danish, croissants, brioches etc etc, i've had a few blackcurrants filled croissants, and a raisin pastry, and an apple danish, all delicious...
but my favourite treat is ice cream... first day i had just strawberry, 'just strawberry' she asked, just strawberry i said, i know what i like, since then, i've gone mixing mad, i had fig and buontalenti (condensed milk i think) zabalione and forest fruits, both ok, but a bit odd, then i have bitter chocolate fondant and raspberry, now we're talking, and today, i went for a straccianoci (coffee chocolate nut combo) and summer fruits, wowsers...
i'll keep tryin them each day, and find the perfect flavour....
so today was my first full day off, so i went for a little potter about town, although i didn't potter, i marched, straight through town, past the duomo, with a queue the size of which even early morning argos would be proud of, past the fake david (not all that) past all the bloody tourists, to the other side of the city, then back again, although i did find an antiques market, and another food market, an english cemetary, and a hotel the size of the liverpool one..
I have made a pledge, it includes me and disscludes supermarkets, while in my time in Florence, i am not going to go to a supermarket, gotta dash
ciao xxxxxxxxx
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