Sea food, sea food, sea food.
After a week we are now into the swing of eating seafood at every meal.
The breakfasts here are an espresso and not much else for the locals. We had a cheese and ham toastie to go with our large macciatos this morning. On the boat we had fresh bread with some fish paste or jam or honey and disgusting coffee so we opted for the tea. I bought some muesli and we got fruit at the markets to supplement. Lunches on the boat were 3 course affairs of simple fare as I have said already. A soup of pasta to start (often fishy), and then a main of meat or fish and some boiled veges, and a piece of fruit to finish.
Yesterday in Dubrovnik we had our best meal yet.
It was grilled squid and potatoes for Barry and a dish with a white shrimp risotto and prawns on skewers. Yum. We also had some grilled egg plant, peppers and tomatoes with a sea food salad of chopped up octopus, mussles and red onion and tomatoes.
The day before effort was nearly as good...octopus salad, mussles, and calamari. We decided at about that point that we could get used to sea food at every meal.
Octopus salad is the favourite local dish around here. The black ink squid with risotto or spaghetti is also a local delicacy but we didn’t get around to it
A long bus trip up to Split (crossing Bosnia!) followed by an overnight ferry to Italy, and then a train trip up to Venice awaits us over the next 36 hours so we will be the worse for wear. Last time in Venice together we could not afford to eat out for most of the trip but splurged and had a simple meal water front and nearly fainted at the price.
Barry has just been to the supermarket and bought a bag of food for the journey for the same price as we have been paying for 2 beers at a bar. No wonder 25 years ago we only ate from the supermarket.
Ciao,
Suzette and Barry
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