Here are some pictures from my recent trip to Venice. Enjoy!
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While my friend Monny was in town we had dinner at Brasserie Lipp and then went in search of a Patisserie to buy dessert to eat by the river during sunset. Unfortunately all the places I had wanted to go to were already closed, but then I remembered Berthillon on Ile Saint Louis. Far from being a compromise, this ice cream is easily one of the best 3 I've ever had, and trust me, I eat a lot of ice cream seeing as it's basically my favorite dessert, winter or summer. I had Cassis and Salted Caramel and will definitely be back soon to try more of their extensive list of flavors.
On one of my first nights in Paris my friend Helena (who knows the ways of the town because she grew up here) took Aya and me to one of the tiniest Italian places in the 6th. Tucked away in a side street near the Bon Marche is Cherche Midi, aptly named after the street it's located on.
While I was staying in San Diego I also went to LA for one day and tried to do as many purely tourist things as possible, because I had never seen LA. We went on a bus trip of Beverly Hills, walked Hollywood Boulevard and had In n Out burgers and Coldstone ice cream to top it all off. I love the burgers at In n Out, but I wasn't entirely convinced of the fries, I'm guessing they had an off day or something like that.
It was such a cool experience to see such a different side of the US and I loved exploring the different parts of LA. One of my highlights was finding Grace Kelly's star on the walk of fame (as you can tell I was very excited to find my favorite Old Hollywood star!).
Before Easter weekend I had never been to California, let alone the west coast of the US. I had been dying to go for such a long time and I couldn't have had a better weekend with my friend Aya and her sweet family. I realized how much I missed the ocean after being away from Bermuda for such a long time. I apologize for the bad quality photos on some of these pictures, but as you already know I lost a lot of my pictures recently. So here's my photo diary of our first day:
On our first day we tried going surfing, failed miserably and tried a whole bunch of new food. Here are a few of the things we had: Eggs benedict with avocado and bacon and Acai Bowls (who knew it was acceptable to have ice cream for breakfast) at 101 Diner in Encinitas. We had the most incredible Salted Caramel Lattes at Lofty that I already miss having.
We also went to a basbell game in downtown San Diego: San Diego Padres vs San Francisco Giants. Naturally we had to have peanut butter milkshakes and fries with bacon infused ketchup at Slaters 50/50 after the baseball game, it was only right. Everything they serve there is in some way related to bacon and they even make bacon cocktails, how unusual is that?
The last picture is one of the craziest things I've ever eaten: cookie pizza at BJ's steakhouse. They ask you to choose 4 different types of cookies and then serve them warm in the same dish with a crazy amount of ice cream (very low calorie obviously). In case you were wondering we opted for salted caramel, peanut butter, white chocolate macadamia and chocolate chunk cookie.
