Asparagus Gelato?!?

After our week in Ibiza we flew back to Milan where we went out to dinner and got the ultimate Italian meal...pizza with pasta on top of it! It was awfully good...then we followed it up with some Tiramisu. It was a nice welcome back to Italy.

The next day we were on our way to the watery streets of Venice. We stayed in Venice for two nights and luckily found a good deal on a hotel. Actually the deal found us as we deboarded our train. It was a small room with 1 single bed and 1 cot that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was the cheapest thing out there though and was centrally located so we could explore the canals of Venice.

We checked out St. Marks Square and wandered over the Ponte Rialto. We enjoyed several markets and had lots of pizza. On our second day we popped into a small local wine shop where they were selling wine straight from the barrel. We noticed the prices were quite cheap, less than 2 Euros per glass, so we ordered a glass of pinot grigio. The owner turned his back to us and started to fill our request. When he turned back around he was holding a 1.5 Liter bottle of wine!!! Apparently the prices were per Liter and not per glass!! So we walked off with a 1.5 Liter bottle of pinot grigio that cost us only 3 Euros! Not a bad deal, but too much wine for us to handle! We got some pizza to go with it and sat down in a piazza to enjoy both.

To finish off our gelato tasting in Italy we found a great gelateria where the owner made all the gelato from scratch. He had some odd flavors too including asparagus...yes asparagus ice cream! I had to try it so I got a scoop of asparagus and a scoop of chocolate as my late gelato in Italy. CJ got kiwi and grapefruit. The aparagus tasted just like...well, asparagus! It was refreshing, and certainly enhanced by the delectable chocolate. It was a nice way to end our Italian visit, and we really liked Venice.

Next stop...Ljubljana?!?!??!