Camping vacations in Italy have left a lasting impression on our childhood. We can still picture it: somewhere between Livorno and Follonica, a small town by the sea. Year after year the same. On the piazza, the boys ride their Vespas, rain or shine. The older men loudly exclaim about the Christian Democrats or the Communists. Women, dressed stylishly or in black, stand around the fountain with their purchases. At the center of this scene, the gelateria.
The memory of the happiness felt standing in front of the gelato showcase and being able to choose any flavor for a thousand lira drove us. We learned the craft from the best gelaterias in Verona. We started out in a disused cheese dairy at the foot of the Belpberg. In the fall of 2010, we opened the first Gelateria di Berna on Mittelstrasse, which we had remodeled mostly ourselves. The pedestrian zone in front of it has turned into something like a piazza.
We hope that we, in turn, will remain as a memory for generations of children to come.
