Academy Gallery (Gallerie dell'Accademia) Venice

Doge's Palace For the reader, it might seem that this blog is sponsored by " Hyperbole and Superlative", but it really is true, words like "amazing"" marvellous" and "incredible" are really all that do it justice. Take that Louvre, with your fancy art. Call that a ceiling, Versailles? The Doge's palace in Venice is a monument to power and influence …

Hello, again, Blogonauts!

Friday was my chance to dip my tongue ... er ... toe ... into Venetian history, which contains much that is attractive and quite a bit that is distasteful. (Perhaps I meant tongue after all.)

I'll begin with the enormous (and frequently waterlogged) Piazza San Marco.

Three structures dominate the …

The city is lively fun and vibrant steeped in culture and heritage. Home of the famous Michael Angelo and the Medici Family who essentially discovered him all those hundreds of years ago. Our hotel put us in the centre of town lined with shops and restaurants. Our first afternoon we pottered around and went into the Duomo cathedral. When we left a …

We took an 8 AM train to Venice which only took 1 hour 10 minutes. It was the most dramatic train ride because the train was a Milan - Venice train that only stopped for 2 minutes in Verona. We stood on one end of the platform hoping that the first class cars would be on that end, it turned out that they were on the other end so we started running …

We didn't have much planned for the day so we didn't set an alarm at all and agreed to just wake up whoever we did, with this great opportunity I wanted to sleep in till 10:00 but sadly upstairs the hotel is been renovated so the workers had all their tolls going at 8:00 which wasn't fun at all. After just chilling in bed until 10:00am and not …

... . Narrow alleyways open up into bright plazas or "Calles" where ordinary Venetians socialise and children play. Academy Gallery Home to some of Venice's most interesting renaissance art, the highlight for most will have been Tintoretto's "Freeing of the ...

... 70 between the three of us, which was awesome. After we'd settled in again, we went to visit a couple of museums including the Academy Gallery, the Ca' Rezzonico, and the Modern Art Museum. All were great, but our legs were pretty weary by the end of the ...