Reoccurrence of the stupid family roam.

The one good thing about the "roam" is that you actually get to see a bit of the city. At times we have covered quite a lot of ground in the eternal search for a reasonably priced traditional meal. Sometimes we are unable to satisfy our desire to eat traditionally but we have never failed to drink the traditional beverage which of course in much of Europe is beer.

The other good thing about the roam is a tendency to walk in circles which means you start to get familiar with the landmarks. Of course it doesn't help me much. I recognize landmarks, but it just makes me incorrectly confident that I know where I am going. Thank goodness I have Greg. He is almost freaky the way he can find things.

We ended up walking down a narrow alley that was completely jampacked with restaurants. It had a really nice festive atmosphere. And they all seemed to be serving seafood. It looked nice but when you're from NZ, not much else is going to measure up. We thought the mussels they were serving liked like more effort to eat as they were so tiny. I was feeling quite smug about our NZ mussels until I found out that seafood is very susceptible to temperature, hence the reason the ones here were so small. They're not usually that small.

Only the waiters put us off. They kept trying to entice us by saying, "What you want? We have seafood, we have meat etc..." But none of them would tell us how much. When we mentioned prices, they suddenly couldn't understand us or hear us. Grrrrr!

Nevermind. We did find a very nice place just around the corner. We kept trying to leave a tip, but the staff just kept giving it right back to us.