"Giusi" > wrote in message
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> "cybercat" ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> "Giusi" wrote in message
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>>> "cybercat"
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>>>> Oh FFS. There is more in life than food.
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>>> Of course, but this is a FOOD group, ergo the reference to FOOD.
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>> Oh. Right. After yesterday I thought I was in
>> alt.mentalhealth.diagnose.Andy
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> Not worth the effort, IMO.
> However, even in an art glut one must eat. Because of the neverending
> stream of feckless toursists, (and of course the others, is there are word
> for not feckless?) bad places can flourish without going broke. That's
> not true of any other Italian city that I know.

I envy you, truly. When I was in Florence I had one meal in the dumbest
place possible--the square outside Palazzo Vecchio--it was that touristy
dish with the peas. Steak and peas, with an Italian name, if I recall
correctly. Most of the time I found local markets outside the tourist area
and lived on hunks of cheese, bread, fruit, tomatoes, and red wine. We used
to go home to the pensione and just spread the stuff out and feast. I tended
to sleep when the Italians did so did not partake of the little pizza places
kept open for Americans and Germans at our lunch time. I had lovely Pizza in
Venice one sleepy spring afternoon when I could not wait until evening. I
ate in an outside area whose "roof" was thick grape vines over latticework.
A cat named Luna wandered overhead and came down for petting.