"ViLco" > wrote in message
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> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
>>> Breakfast was unbelievable! I'll take the camera with me tomorrow
>>> morning. What was I thinking?
>
>> That's a bit odd to me; I never thought Italians went in much for
>> lavish breakfasts. (When I lived in Italy, our standard breakfast was
>> a roll, fruit and/or juice, and espresso.)
>
> Exactly, almost always only sweet things, savoury foods are uncommon here.
>
>> Was this perhaps a place
>> which caters to foreigners?
>
> Almost every italian hotel offers international breakfasta nowadays,
> that's why you can find many savoury things and other things we usually
> don't have for breakfast.
> --

SF is in a hotel that clearly caters to Americans.