Comments on: Cakes….at a price

By: Jaws

Jaws — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:17:44 +0000

Thanks for the info!

By: GollyG

GollyG — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:18:40 +0000

I may have a go at making the fruit one, it looks fabulous!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:11:00 +0000

Hi Jaws,

Check out these sites:

http://www.palestre.milano.it/index.php
http://www.palestremilano.com/index.htm

They are in Italian, but you should be able to work it out;-) Plenty of numbers and addresses.

By the way, ‘gym’ is ‘palestra’ in Italian or ‘palestre’ if you want the plural – gyms. If you want to search for info about gyms in Milan by using Google, try searching for ‘palestre, Milano’ and wade through the (mainly Italian) results. The big names here, although I know very little about this, are Francesco Conti, American Contourella and Sportsman Club. You could also try the ‘Pagine Gialle’ or yellow pages for yet more info: http://www.paginegialle.it/pg/cgi/pgsearch.cgi?btt=1&ts=1&l=1&cb=0&ind=&nc=&x=0&y=0&qs=palestra&dv=milano

Hope that helps.

Happy hunting!

Alex

By: Jaws

Jaws — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:00:00 +0000

Hi!

I’m just taking a chance here. You live in Milan som I thought you may know of some good gyms there.

I’m looking for work as a personal trainer or fitness instructor but I can’t find any decent information on the web. There are hardly any homepages of the gyms.

Do you know of any gym homepages?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:28:48 +0000

Hi Jan, the fruit cake/tart was about 18 inches I guess, it was big and delicious too. The fruit cakes are all made the same way, as sort of sweet pastry base filled with a layer of vanilla custard, upon which the fruit are placed. Sometimes the fruit is covered with a sweet gelatine based glaze, which is transparent.
The chocolate cake was about 12″ in diameter and was several layers of sponge with a chocolate ceam beneath each layer.

David, they were very very good, but not cheap!