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| When our flight first landed in Rome, the first words from my lips were "this is so beautiful", but what I really was thinking is "how does one eat in the land of cheese and gelato, with allergies to milk, egg and nuts"? To make matters more difficult, none of us spoke Italian. We were armed with 34 year old rusty high school French and Spanish. Fortunately, one of my travel mates listened to 3 lessons of Italian from Pimsler, and for 20 minutes I studied the Traveling Abroad book that Bud had ordered through the Food Allergy Network, FAAN . Unfortunately, the book left a lot of gaps in my Italian food allergy vocabulary. Some of the locals spoke enough English to barely communicate. Many waiters did not understand food allergies nor English. Bud was not with us on this particular trip, so I took the opportunity to research available dining options for him on our nine day whirl wind tour of central Italia. We spent three days in Rome, two days in Tuscany and the final four days in Venezia, with two quick trips to Murano. At first, I was skeptical, but in the end we met some very nice people and found some potential dining options., |
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