Home » Italy » I'm Suffering From Gelato Withdrawal

I’m Suffering from Gelato Withdrawal. . .

Finally, here is the much-awaited Italy Travel Blog. Due to high public demand, I’m putting out this one before the Chartres “1000th Anniversary of the Commissioning of the Cathedral” Medieval Festival that took place the week before I left for vacation, so stay posted for the Medieval Blog to come out probably next weekend. I really should write these blogs more often because I end up with so much to put in them they become very long - so here’s another long one, sorry!

I'm Suffering From Gelato Withdrawal

Lisa Damico
2007-03-08 19:53:32

Displayed times (last time: )

prepared with butter.

My other notable cooking lesson was on how to make a homemade pizza - the trick for a thicker, softer crust she informed me, is to mix in mashed potato with the crust. I will admit at one point I was fed a "hamburger" because "all Americans love hamburgers of course" even though I tried in my best Italian to explain that I don't really consider hamburger a staple in my diet. On Halloween I was also given pumpkin to eat at lunch, because since they don't celebrate Halloween she decided eating pumpkin would be the next best thing, at which I had to smile and assure her was the case. So overall I had a very nice, relaxing time in Rome, I think Zia Tullia was actually very sad to see me leave and told me I would have to come back during the spring and we would go stay at her friend's house in Capri . . . sounds good to me!

Once again Paolo met me at the train station when I returned to Milan on Friday and we quickly packed our bags for a weekend of sailing at Porto Venere and headed to Roberto's to pick him up. As I did not have proper sailing attire with me the cousins decked me out in their clothes, jackets, hats and shoes - which they found pretty entertaining - and we hit the road. Paolo spends most of his weekends sailing (and Roberto spends his climbing), so Paolo had a special course he was doing and stayed on a smaller 4-man boat while Roberto and I were on the 8-man boat with 2 skippers. Before leaving Milan Roberto had printed out an "English-Italian Sailing Vocabulary Dictionary" so that I would understand what was going on, but I quickly realized the English sailing terms were just as foreign to me at the Italian ones so I told him just teach me the Italian so I can have some idea what people are saying while we're sailing.

Our crew included me, Roberto, the two skippers - a boyfriend girlfriend pair named Marcello and Dani, two Monicas, one Diego and an Ana Maria. Our first night on board Marcello pulled ...