We spent Christmas eve in a restaurant in the old town, Fra Stefano and there we started with a traditional Southern Italy Christmas Eve dish of seven different fish dishes, one for each day that God took to make the world.
Mussels, large prawns, octopus, anchovies, squid, tuna carpaccio and a staggering mussel souffle. I finished with more fish from the grill and Suellen broke with tradition and had the beef.
At 10:45 she went to the church next door to midnight mass and didn't get home until 01:40. Christmas morning was bucks fizz with breakfast and then into the town for 12. We couldn't believe the view. Corso Garibaldi, the main street was packed, with everyone dressed in their finery, young girls in incredibly short skirts, young men with impeccably gelled hair in shiny silk suits, ladies in fur coats and everywhere, people kissing and shaking hands.
This photo doesn't do the scene justice. We sat at the bar/gelataria in left of the picture above, had a Campari soda and watched the 'passageria'.At 1 o'clock they all just drifted away and by 1:10 the main street was deserted so we came home and had smoked salmon and fizz for lunch.
Our main meal was at 6:30. Beef carpaccio, turkey, roast onions & potatoes, carrots, peas and no Brussel sprouts.
Christmas pudding steamed for 3 hours, flamed with brandy with cream to finish.
Wallace and Gromit on the TV - A great great day.
Carpaccio and Prosecco
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