OMG Venchi! Yes, this gelato deserves not just its own post, but another post as I discover MSC makes its own Venchi gelato on board. As if I wasn’t sold with cruising already. I’m sold again!
So, it seems, is Harley, although I dare say he isn’t as fussy or as entirely impressed as I am. Perhaps discerning is the word. I have discovered that there are several gelato bars around the ship serving this wonderful substance. The children are well rehearsed again in their requests of “uno gelato per favore”.
After the morning in Abu Dhabi I decide that a little gelato is in order. Jason is off with Jasper so Harley and I indulge in our selections of peach and strawberry sorbets. Of course it’s wonderful. This time I’m not just taken back to childhood Spring time by the flavours but to Winter’s stewed peaches with custard, a staple Sunday night dinner. I also get to travel back to our recent Summer in Italy, remembering Venchi in Rome and our wonderful holiday there visiting the Trevi Fountain, St Peter’s Basilica & The Vatican, the Colusseum and wandering the beautiful cobbled streets with a gelato in hand.
Ah, the transportative and restorative properties of ice cream! It doesn’t take long and I look down at my son, with strawberry gelato all over his face, hands and shirt and realise that I should have gotten my own. He smiles up at me like he’s just eaten a bowl of sunshine and I guess there’s always tomorroe. We can relive Summer for a few more days yet.
Would I Return?
Yes, I returned a few times during the duration of our cruise. I dare not think exactly how many.