Italian Food

Some of the well known Italian food and drink are pasta (spaghetti, lasagna, etc), pizza, risotto, Parmesan cheese, Tuscany wine, tiramisu, limoncello, cappucino, caffe freddo, Perugina chocolate, gelato and many others.

We normally had late-morning cappucino breaks at "coffee bar", lunches at trattoria (less fancy restaurant) or pizzeria (I could still remember the taste of a thin-crust fresh-seafood pizza - so delicious!) and 4-course dinners at ristorante (restaurants).

In most our tour's included dinners, there are usually a starter (soup or salad), first course (plain pasta - spaghetti, sometimes lasagna), main course (usually chicken, pork or fish with baked potato or fries), dessert (ice cream, fruits or occasional tiramisu) and cappucino (sometimes wine, or wine and cappucino).  So you can imagine how we felt after dinner every night, just before we retire to our hotel rooms.  :-)

Marinated salmon & Roll of rabbit

More exotic food would be (right top) marinated salmon and (right bottom) "roll of rabbit" (tasted like chicken, but much more tender).

Gelato from Lake District

(above) Italians are generous with their serving of gelato.  Above is a 2-flavoured gelato.. oh yummy!!

Well-designed large mineral water bottles

The Italians (or Europeans) got the design of the large mineral water bottles right, back in 2003!!  The bottles were slightly narrower in the middle to make it easier for us to hold and also to pour out the content.  Sadly we seldom see such bottle-design being used elsewhere, after our Italian trip.

Coffee and tea-bags

We were surprised to find familiar Nutella during breakfast one morning.  Italians seldom drink tea, but this hotel served a variety of tea-bags for its guests.

Besides the "Best of Italy" sights, we also got a taste of the "Best of Italy".  :-)