My favourite Italian moments :
- Josiah saying "Daddeee" in his sweet 'manja' voice. It was his latest word and ohhh....I was so jealous of S. I have spent 100% of my time with him but still "Daddeee" is all he would say in that one week. Hrrrmmph.
- Eating gelato everyday (I did share with S and Josiah...). Must also mention that Josiah refused to try gelato because I ordered it in a cup and not in a cone. To him, ice cream = cone, but when I finally forced him to taste some off my spoon - there was no turning back. Mention ice cream, his mouth opens wide. This is from the boy who guards his mouth like gold!
- Fresh pasta in abundance. They have specialty shops that sells all sorts of fresh pasta. Spinach flavoured, tomato flavoured, black squid ink, ...etc
Amazingly yummy. Don't even need sauce, just pour simple mushroom, olive oil & basil sauce over it. Delicious.
- Josiah walking EVERYWHERE, EVERYDAY - wow, his walking improved so much during this one week. People on the streets cannot believe he had only just started walking.
- Siesta time concept: These Italians really know how to enjoy life to the max. Shops were usually closed from 2-4pm for lunch and naptime! And they partied on till late. Which is bad for us as we often only managed to get out of the apartment at 11am and have to be home at 7pm for Josiah to have dinner and sleep.
- Discovering the adult channel on their TV.....alamak, these Italians are quite "ham sap" - plenty of free channels to choose from after 11pm!! Even UK telly is not as bold as Italy.
- Italian coffee....mmmm......even for a non coffee person, I am in love with their coffee. There are bars, coffee bars everywhere. Men come in, stand at the counter and order a shot of their coffee which is an espresso normally, gulp it and leave! Would definately recommend coffee lovers to retire here, cheap and fantastic coffee.
- Venice is over rated, I mean it is lovely city but sooo commercialised. Instead, I loved Lake Garda, it is scenic, beautiful and not so congested. Check out the pics of Lake Garda at my picasa link.
- I still prefer my "American" type pizza with pineapple and chicken! Italian pizzas are so complex, too high class to me - for eg sword fish, fennel & anchovy pizza....gimme my Hawaiian Pizza from Domino anytime :)
- After 4 days of Italian, I had craving for McDonald! Pathetic but true. McChicken never tasted so good and there was no queue too....Italy is one place McDonalds cannot survive.
- One word: TIRAMISU. Every shop had their own version but all were top class and delicious
- Two words: GETTING FAT. Need I say more.......
Josiah is very possesive of his stroller and makes sure it is by his side when he is walking
Josiah enjoying his gelato
Wanted to upload a video of Josiah entertaining us in the bus to Lake Garda, but the file is too big - so just click on the link below
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mum2josiah
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