I really, really want to be good and keep to the guidelines given to me at Viva Mayr – but it’s really difficult when travelling. I need to be wheatfree and cow’s milk free but try telling that to your Italian hosts as they serve two different types of pasta with lashings of parmesan. Even pretending to be a vegetarian doesn’t help, when you’re served that glorious Tuscan bread soup, followed by aubergine tucked up in a delicious cheesy blanket.
Of course I loved every minute of it but it is extraordinary how quickly your stomach reacts when, it too, is trying to be good. Back came the heaviness and bloating in an instant.
Ah well…worse things happen at sea…back to the ryevita and soya yoghurt in the morning…
