Sunday, 31 January, 2016 – Tampa - Clearwater
After disembarking around 0930h, we picked up our car and drove out to Tarpon Springs, a Greek fishing village 46 km from Tampa. This village was settled by Greeks at the beginning of the previous century, who were sponge divers and came to Florida to harvest the sponges that grow in the area. We had lunch at “Rusty Bellies” which catches, serves and sells its own seafood. Greek is still spoken in the streets and many signs are bilingual, with some also including Spanish. We visited here about 20 years ago with the kids.
That evening we went to Villa Bellini Restaurant for dinner. I had the Saccottini Ciro which is imported pouch-shaped fresh pasta filled with ricotta cheese and black truffles in a light cream sauce with mushrooms. Delicious, but ridiculously rich! Gail had the Cannelloni Tampa Cannelloni filled with chopped spinach, chicken, roasted garlic, mozzarella, ontina, armigiano and ricotta cheeses, topped with a armigiano cream sauce.
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