#6 – Buy roasted chestnuts from a street vendor

There was a queue of people around the roasted chestnuts stand, we had waited all day to return there to enjoy them and the delicious smell of Christmas chestnuts was filling the air.  It was all set to be a successful addition to the birthday list!  With my little paper bag filled with hot freshly roasted chestnuts I posed for a photo beside the stand and then we excitedly bit in.  Having never experienced roasted chestnuts before I had no real idea what to expect… what a disappointment!  They tasted like strangely cooked, or un-cooked, potatoes and despite my determination to at least eat the whole of one of them the last bit ‘accidentally’ fell out of my hand… it did NOT get replaced!  Oh well, at least I now know that I do not like roasted chestnuts, but sad to have had that Christmas illusion popped!