Gelateria - if I only knew....: "Need a birthday cake?" Top 5 Page for this destination Vernazza Shopping Tip by tini58de

This was the greatest adventure in Cinque Terre:

I had somehow set my mind on getting my husband a birthday cake, but did not find a bakery that had any cakes.... plus I wanted to keep it a secret! So I managed to get away from hubby and asked at this one bakery. No, they did not have cakes, just bread, foccacia and rolls, but she showed me a gelateria (an ice cream parlor) and told me to ask there.

Okay, I hurried there and asked the lady about cakes. Hahahaha - not as easy as you think! Fortunately I am an audiologist and majored in deaf ed, so my sign language skills are pretty good - and thanks to VT I know birthday wishes in quite a few languages.... So, I pointed at my wedding band to show her that I was talking about my husband, then I said "compleannos" (which I do not even know if it is anything close to Italian, but apprently she understood) and then I said: "torta" and mumbled something like "piccolo"....... The hardest part was to make it clear to her that I needed the "tortina" the next morning!!!

Well, next morning at 8.30 h I arrived there and wanted to get the cake, but she only looked at me and said: "esta sera" - this evening!!! Oh, no!!! But then she told me to wait 20 minutes and in that time she made the best cake that we have ever eaten!!!

What to buy: A self made cake!!!

What to pay: Be prepared to pay quite a bit - but be sure that it is worth every single Euro!

Directions: If you walk down from the pharmacy (which is the only pharmacy in Vernazza) it is the first gelateria on the same side as the pharmacy.
Theme: Food and Drink