A Trio of Supermarket Gelati from Florence

When I was in Florence a few months ago, I ate a lot of gelato from fantastic gelatarias. Almost every day, I would revel in its freshly-made-and-scooped-before-my-eyes creaminess whilst wandering around the city’s cobbled streets. Regular readers will know, though, that while I do love me some artisan, fresh, made-with-love, and/or fancypants foods, I also [...]

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Glimpses of Florence, Part Two

Sometimes it feels wrong to be posting about Florence without simultaneously talking about gelato. Gelato was an integral part of my Italian experience, as most days involved  frozen delightfulness in one form or another.  My plan for the future is to remember posts such as this one recounting gelato highlights whenever I find myself journeying back to Florence [...]

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I Like My Gelato Like a Trophy Wife Likes Her Men: Thick and Rich

So far in my Florence travel recaps, I’ve shown you some slightly disappointing gelato from Festival del Gelato and some far better gelato and granita from Carabe. Surely, though, you must have known the gelato adventures didn’t stop there. Now, for a bit of a disclaimer, the following doesn’t cover every gelato adventure I had – just a [...]

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This Gelato and David: 1, That Museum and Chocolate: 0

I’m currently torn between the fear of forgetting what happens in my days (this leads me to want to post travel stories constantly) and the fear of losing all my readers when I get back to normal non-travelling life in Canberra (this leads me to want to hoard my travel stories). Today, I seem to [...]

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Tiny Bunks, Gelato, and Italian Men: Arrival in Florence, March 26

So, I’m really terrible at chronology. I’m going to try to date my Paris posts, as I did the last, so that this blog makes some sort of sense as to where I am and have been (and when). I absolutely intend to keep blogging about Paris, but I’m posting this tonight because it’s all [...]

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