More Food Adventures: 5 Food Tasting European Road Trips

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If you have been living in Europe for quite some time, you have probably been using all of your vacation time to visit famous cities, to go sightseeing and to view historical locations. Maybe you want to travel more, but you do not know where to go next or what you would do when you got there.

All of this time, you have been traveling to see and experience new things. Perhaps what you need is to start traveling to experience new things with a different sense, meaning your taste buds. Food tasting road trips can be an absolute blast and planning them is half the fun. You'll visit new places, taste amazing food and sip fantastic wines. For even more fun, keep an online log of all of the places you have been and rate restaurants for your friends. Try to find a car with good gas mileage, like a used ford, so that you can go farther for cheaper and be sure to add these top five European food destinations to your must-taste list.

1. The most obvious location to make it on the list is probably Paris, France. Yes, you have probably visited Paris a dozen times. Paris is rich with history, beauty, culture, shopping and incredible music. But it also has incredible food. Restaurants in Paris have a wide price range, so you do not have to make reservations at the fanciest restaurants in order to get a good meal. In Paris, seemingly everyone cooks amazing food, so you will probably enjoy yourself at any restaurant that you happen to walk into.

2. If you love seafood, you should definitely head to Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is known for its fish dishes. Restaurants in Barcelona will be likely to serve meals with oysters, mussels, lobster, shrimp and cuttlefish. Different kinds of paellas flavored with the exquisite spice of saffron will light up your taste buds.

3. Florence, Italy is perfect for you if you love Italian food and wine. In Florence, you can sign up for Tuscan wine tours, where your senses will be overwhelmed with smells, sights and tastes. Pasta lovers will be in heaven as they try local olive oils, fresh pasta noodles and fabulous Romano and Mozzarella cheeses.

4. If you want to try authentic English cuisine, York in the United Kingdom should be your next destination. York has countless cafes, tearooms and bars that will certainly give you a truly British experience. York also has restaurants that have food from other parts of the world. You will find restaurants that specialize in Thai, Indian, Pakistani and much more. A trip to York will be like visiting multiple countries in one trip.

5. If you are willing to travel a little further east, do not forget to stop by Brussels, Belgium. Brussels is most well known for its amazing chocolate. In fact, you can even take chocolate tours. Also popular in Brussels are frites. Frites are potatoes that have been deep-fried. They come in many different shapes and sizes and most people dip them in a variety of delicious flavored sauces, like garlic or curry mayonnaise, tomato and pepper sauces and tartar sauce.

Helen Pritchard writes for both netcars.com, a used car classified website and Car Finance 247 who specialize in helping people obtain car finance deals.