The food on this trip has never really driven us out of our comfort zone, until now.
In Greece the food consisted mostly of breads and salads, with the odd kebab; not really much different from home, although the variety of breads available is certainly a lot larger than Baker's Delight's. In Rome, it's not really hard to guess that it was the classic pizza and pasta, with many of us having pizza at least once a day. Florence was surprising in that it wasn't so typically Italian, many of us had kebabs or salads. Venice was much the same.
And then we hit France. The first night was fairly mediocre, with steak and salad, but that was all to change on the following nights. The next night the cutlery laid out consisted of a weird contraption, which we thought could only be for snails, to which John firmly stated, "If they serve snail, I'm getting up and walking out of the country." Clearly, he was not exactly in his comfort zone. The inevitable dish was brought out, and after some psyching up, we actually found it to be quite tasty.
The following night we had snail again (following the thunderstorm, I'm sure no one has mentioned it yet!). This time they were significantly larger, but although flavoured differently, were still amazing. For the penultimate dinner, we were met with a supposedly exquisite selection of seafood which was certainly unexpected for many. As a leaving treat, they baked us a sort of pavlova log, which had cream on the outside, and icecream in the middle.
It certainly has been adventure!
Fred
