The Food and the Folks

Since we stayed at the same hotel for the entire trip, we became very familiar with the breakfast buffet.  When I go to breakfast, I rarely take my camera.  I wish I had; to record this unusual spread of food.  When we’ve been in Europe on other trips, beans were usually a part of breakfast, but not this time.

The majority of the left side of the buffet contained pickled eggplant, and olives with cucumber pickles and various kinds of olives all cold.  There were several kinds of deli style meats  and slices of several types of cheese(all cold).  To the end of the buffet table were scrambled eggs (sometimes hot and sometimes cool) and  bacon which was not done enough for me. Weiners, usually hot, were near the eggs. The other side of the buffet held pastries of different types and dry cereal with milk.  There were fruit jam pies cut into wedges, yogurt,   The end of the right side of the buffet held 4-6 different types of juices—Orange, pineapple, mango, apple

Other than the breakfasts, the food I ate was mediocre.  The salads were interesting, the second course, pasta was usually not done enough for my taste with various sauces.  Entrees were usually chicken, veal, fish, and beef.  Since I’ve never met a dessert I didn’t like, I can tell you that all the desserts were quite good.

We had 3 meals together as a tour group  the pictures below come from the first one.  I don't really know all the names to put with the pictures, and if I don't have your picture, forgive me--- and if I have your picture and you wish I didn't, forgive that also.  These are the traveling companions---