Switzerland and Venice by night
Our week in Zurich, Lucerne, Lugarno and Venice was fantastic - nothing but eating, sleeping and walking. We got very serious about the baked-goods rule, first instituted in Venice in 2005. The rule is that any time you're walking somewhere in Europe and you see a bakery/confectioner's, you go in and buy one thing you haven't eaten before. And oh boy, did we eat. We ate croissants and cream horns, marble biscuits and pistachio biscuits, apple strudel, jam sablees, jaffa ricotta cannelloni, chocolate-dipped chocolate-cream biscuits, chocolate sablees, berry strudel, cherry pie, slabs of Swiss chocolate with fudge pieces embedded... it was heaven. Every now and then we'd get to a bakery and I'd be too full (I'm the one who made up the rule, greedy piglet) and Steve would get all serious and give me talks about morals and Doing The Right Thing, and in we'd go and scarf down more deliciousness.
Speaking of, we also went back to the pizzeria which in 2005 gave us the best pizza we'd every eaten. It has now been reclassified as The Best Pizza on God's Green Earth. We ate it in the dark, to the sound of ancient bells, sitting on marble well steps, in the centre of Campo de San Maurizio in Venice.
There's so much I could go on about, but I'll leave it there, and show you some photos (mercifully edited from the 400 I took) of Switzerland and Venice at night. And The Best Pizza on God's Green Earth (TBPOGGE).
Zurich:
Lucerne, beginning with the Dying Lion of Lucerne, an amazing monument carved into a cliff:
Lugarno:
Venice:
Steve eating the BPOGGE:
The BPOGGE itself - just delicious thin base, tangy tomato sauce, fresh pomodorini, buffalo mozzarella added when it's out of the oven, and torn basil leaves.
Oh, and PS: Oxford is COLDER THAN SWITZERLAND.
Speaking of, we also went back to the pizzeria which in 2005 gave us the best pizza we'd every eaten. It has now been reclassified as The Best Pizza on God's Green Earth. We ate it in the dark, to the sound of ancient bells, sitting on marble well steps, in the centre of Campo de San Maurizio in Venice.
There's so much I could go on about, but I'll leave it there, and show you some photos (mercifully edited from the 400 I took) of Switzerland and Venice at night. And The Best Pizza on God's Green Earth (TBPOGGE).
Zurich:
Lucerne, beginning with the Dying Lion of Lucerne, an amazing monument carved into a cliff:
Lugarno:
Venice:
Steve eating the BPOGGE:
The BPOGGE itself - just delicious thin base, tangy tomato sauce, fresh pomodorini, buffalo mozzarella added when it's out of the oven, and torn basil leaves.
Oh, and PS: Oxford is COLDER THAN SWITZERLAND.