The trip home - Venice

My daughter Becca just had a short vacation in Italy When we were in Venice (and still on a PCV budget on our way home) we were camping for a week just outside the city at Mestre. We wandered the streets during the day buying our lunch from the pizza shops or other street vendors. I don't think that we sat down in a restaurant for a meal the whole time we were there. I do remember the day that we came upon a shop that had fresh chickens hanging in the window. We decided to have fried chicken for dinner. The other campers thought that we were truly crazy when we brought it back to the campground. There we sat in front of our tent making dinner one dish at a time. We only had one small pot and were cooking on a one-burner camp stove. First we heated up some tea, then made some vegetables the we started to fry that chicken. We breaded it with some semolina we had gotten in a grocery and fried it in some oil that we had gotten also. We could only cook 2 or 3 pieces at a time in the little 6 inch pot. It took hours to cook the whole thing! We had it for breakfast and lunch the next day too, because traveling like we were, we didn't have any cooler either. I think that was one of the most unusual meals that we made while we were on our own at the European end of our trip.