Italian food everywhere!
I love Italian food. Apparently, all of Europe does too. I think we ate more Italian on our trip than we ever have at home — and not just in Italy! Chris, who is a huge fan of beef carpaccio, literally ate it at every meal where he found it on the menu - which was nearly everywhere we went. Well, he didn’t eat the beef carpaccio was frozen that was presented to him in Austria. That was different.
In Amsterdam, we went to an Italian cafe for lunch and and Norwegian-named restaurant that served only Italian dishes.
In Dublin, the only restaurant that was open on the first night we went out to dinner (it was late but not that late) was Italian.
London at least had plenty other options and we ate other food there.
But in Paris, we had Italian twice!
In Munich, there was no food, only beer. (Just kidding, just kidding)
In Austria, Italian! We even saw a restaurant that bore the sign, “You Like Pizza!”
And yes, in Switzerland, Italian twice! We were even in a part of Switzerland, Lugano, that wanted to be Italian so bad, that was the common language and almost every restaurant was Italian. That was really weird — I guess its like Montreal is to the rest of Canada.
And then we were in Italy, where one of our meals was the WORST Italian I have ever eaten. The other meal was quite good, though.
And, the first night we were home we had the fine culinary delight that is Chef Boy Ardee ravioli for dinner. We just can’t seem to escape it!
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