Food in Europe

While we were in Europe, I did a couple of quick postings to say where we were, but didn't add too many details.

In this blog, I am going to describe some of the different foods we ate. We started in the Netherlands where out first meal on the tour was Indonesian. We spent a day in Amsterdam before the tour started where we had Dutch pancakes. The pancakes can be sweet or savory. We had a cheese, mushroom, ham pancake for lunch - which we shared. While on tour one day in Amsterdam we were lucky enough to have White Asparagus soup - delicious.

We next toured south into Germany where we had white asparagus, chicken, and roasted potatoes for our night there. We also sampled some of the riesling wine from the area near Bacharach.

The next really outstanding meal we had was in Florence. We had beef topped with Argula on our tour. The next night Connie had some excellent Brushetta. Bread topped with fresh tomatoes and basil and olive oil. Bob had an excellent steak that night.

In the Cinque Terre, Italy we went to a nice seafood restauraunt. Connie had pesto pasta (pesto is a specialty of the region) and Bob had a seafood platter.

In Switzerland we had an afternnon snack (happy hour) of Cheese fondue. We had been wanting to try it - and it was yummy. France brought us to the land of croissants and quiche. Also, we had french onion soup and beef burgundy.

It was so much fun trying the food and wine of the different regions.

London

What a trip this has been. We went to Switzerland and then onto France. We had 3 nights in Paris. We're now in London where we went to the Windsor Castle, the Tower of London, Westminister Abbey, and the Imperial War Museum. We also saw the changing of the guard. We leave for Seattle in about 20 hours.

Cinque Terre, Italy

We are ready to spend our second night at the Cinque Terre here in Italy. We did a hike between the 5 towns of the Cinque Terre. Well, Bob, did the whole thing and Connie did most of it, but took a train between two of the towns. This is the hillside towns right on the water. They are perched on the edge of the Mediteranean. Very beautiful and scenic. When we get home we will post some pictures.

We head to Switzerland tomorrow morning. We spend two nights there and then 4 nights total in France (3 in Paris). Back to the USA on June 20th

Florence and Rome

We enjoyed our time in Florence, especially visiting Michelangelo's David. This statue is 17 feet tall. When you enter the museum you come around a corner and it sits on a pedestal at the end of the corridor. We never really understood how beautiful a statue could be. This is definitely the tops. We also had some really good meals in Florence. Delicious brushetta.

Next we drove to Rome. We toured the Vatican museum, the Sistine Chapel and St. Paul's church. This church is bigger than any church you can imagine. It has something like 27 chapels in it.

On Thursday we had a waling tour from the Colliseum to the Pantheon. The Colliseum is almost 2000 years old. It is a huge structure that used to hold 50,000.

Florence

We're now in Florence, Italy. We have been busy since our last posting. It was a little rainy in Germany, but still very beautiful. We went to the Neueinstein castle. We also went down the luge. That was really fun. We both went 3 times and faster each time.

Venice was wonderful. It was a little rainy when we arrived on the first evening. But, the next day was great. Not too hot, but sunny. This is an amazing city. No cars or bikes anywhere. We took an evening gondola ride.

We're here in Florence and getting ready to visit a museum this morning. More in the next post.