Italy by Gelato
Of the 10 ports we stopped at, 4 of them were in Italy. We were doing our touring cheap. Since meals were included on the ship, we didn’t want to spend a lot of our money on food ashore. As much as we might have enjoyed the meals. But we did want to get something small and special while ashore, to tide us over.
In Italy it was gelato.
Our first city was Florence. I was thinking of trying gelato from the beginning, but every place we saw seemed to be fairly pricy. So we did the entire walking tour, and ended near the bridge.
Before going onto the bridge I had noticed a gelato shop by the end of the bridge. I had made up my mind at that point we’d get it there anyway. But as I wrote in the blog on Florence, I was still a little loathe to pay EUR 2 for each cone. The cones were small. however, the amount of gelato that they piled on top of the cone, as one scoop, was exceptional.
As was the flavor and texture of the gelato. We tried to describe it to people. The best we could come up with was it was more the texture of pudding, though frozen (of course actual pudding frozen wouldn’t be that soft and creamy — it would be a solid pudding pop).
Well, Rome was second. After doing the tour of the city there, just before we were ready to head back to the train, we found another gelato shop. It was at this point that the phrase “Italy by Gelato” entered our lexicon.
Our third Italian port was Naples. But we didn’t visit anything in Naples, we went to Pompeii. We didn’t stop for gelato at Pompeii, and didn’t walk by anything gelato. Southern Italy wasn’t our gelato Italy.
After Naples there were several days of other countries, other ports, before we got back to Italy and Venice, our port of disembarkation. But our first thought again was “Italy by gelato.” We found an off-the-beaten path shop, and got our gelato near the beginning of our touring this time.
There are a lot of other memories we have of Italy, blogged previously. If you mention a particular city, our first memory would be something else. But if you just mention Italy, it is
Italy by Gelato
At The Rainbow 