Florence - Cold, Wet Gelato Festival

We went to the Gelato Festival in Florence on a cold and rainy day. The weather was horrible, but the worst part was that the Gelato Festival was closed - not because of the rain, but because the generators weren't working so they couldn't make the gelato.

However, there was a demonstration and it was in a covered area, so we went to watch. The guy spoke all in Italian, so I have no idea what he was saying, but he made the BEST strawberry gelato I have ever tasted.







The generators started working, so we waited another hour until they reopened the Festival. My mom had used Groupon to get the ticket and the ticket didn't work so we had to find someone to help us.My Mom was supposed to go online to activate the Groupon, but since it was written in Italian, she didn't know. Fortunately, they let us in anyway.

There were 14 different kinds of Gelato to taste and 8 were in the competition.

           

My favorite was Buontalenti, but I ate so much of it that I don't like it anymore - boo! Buontalenti wasn't part of the competition because it was last year's winner. My favorite of the flavors in the competition was Sambuco.

At the end of the day we were all so sick of gelato that we didn't think we would ever eat it again. Since it has taken me a while to write this blog post, I can tell you that I definitely still like to eat gelato!