After our city walking tour this morning, we wondered what to do the rest of the day, so I scrolled through ‘Get your guide’ and found a food and wine tour to do in the evening.
So, after our nap we headed back towards the old part of town to join our new guide. We were the only ones on the tour, it was very impressive that they could organise it at such short notice. I’m not a huge foodie but it was a fun way to wander around the town again, with a different agenda.
Our guide was a young woman called Miriam. We started with toast and various flavours of olive oil, and then moved on to a famous chocolate shop. From there it was a little pizza place to try the local version which is a small pizza base with tomato paste on top. The pizza dough is made with milk as they have a strong tradition of dairy products here.
After that we stopped at a bakery to try the local pastry specialty, a little tart invented by local woman after WW1. It’s basically rice pudding in a little pie crust. It’s traditionally eaten with coffee at breakfast. We got ours to takeaway, this is me about to eat it just now in our little apartment. PS yummy.
The last stop was a couple of glasses of local wine, a white Soave and a red Volpicello, with a meat and cheese platter.
It was a very pleasant evening, warm and still, and we had a lovely time wandering around the banks of the river in the old town, before having a light dinner at a restaurant Miriam had recommended.
Well, I had a light dinner: a salad after a very carb heavy day. Simon, however, took up the challenge and had a horse meat stew. Never again, he says – apparently once is enough. Our guide this morning said her grandmother used to force her to eat it once a week because it was rich in iron. She said it was quite sweet. Simon agreed but added it’s fairly tough and reminiscent of goat.
