Lido Beach Venice

I barely slept last night. I started to think about the maze of tightly woven buildings and water that we were sleeping on. It became quite disturbing to my claustraphobic mind and I'm sure that sleeping in the room the size of a closet wasn't helping. At one point, I was pretty sure that Venice was sinking and our building was collapsing into an …

Day 49 - Munich to Venice
Another early start to the day, caught the bus at 8am which was conveniently
around the corner from our hotel. It was a very scenic ride through
the Austrian alps, stopping at Innsbruck, a beautiful spot in a
valley next to a wide river, and from the town center you can look up
and see the mountains. We …

Yesterday we found something worse than Irish college students and cranky babies: Extended American Families on Vacation. Our flight from Prague to Venice was only an hour long but felt like 10 due to the fact that we were surrounded by this horrible American family, including a loud grandmother, a cranky grandfather, two adult children, their …

Greetings from Venice my loyal readers. I'm back to update you about just what Nathan and I have been up too the past few days in Venice.

When I left off yesterday we were taking a siesta at the hostel. I realized I forgot to include a proper description of the hostel! The hostel we are staying at, the Ostello St. Fosca, is a dormitory …

We arrived in Venice on Saturday after taking the two hour train ride from Florence. It was on Eurostar which was once again extremely fast, comfortable and efficient. It's a nice way to travel. We took the water bus from Venice's Santa Lucia station to our hotel which is about 10 minutes from San Marco. The sights and sounds, as well as the …

le mardi 7 mai 2013

Aujourd'hui, nous attendons une livraison spéciale: celle de Chantal accompagnée de sa mère Pierrette, sa soeur Mélanie et de Maxime, le cousin de Félix et de Sébastien. Quelle surprise pour les gars!

Avant leur arrivée, les trois gars avons passé la matinée à découvrir l'île du Lido. Nous nous sommes rendus au …

Le dimanche 12 mai 2013

C'est la fête des Mères! Bonne fète à chacune d'entre vous. Des voeux particuliers à la mienne de la part de nous tous en Italie. Et des voeux à Chantal de la part de ses deux garçons.

Ce matin, malgré les festivités, par contre, Chantal nous quitte. Le coeur bien gros, vers 8h, nous lui disons aurevoir …

3^rd stop on our Eurotrip.. Venice! From Paris it was an overnight train through Switzerland to the famous Italian city where boats are the main mode of transport. I know everyone is probably sick of me saying incredible but this city was. It is absolutely stunning. We were only there for 1 night which was probably enough time to spend …

We went to the international film festival today in Lido, just outside Venice. This was fun as we walked around and saw a blue carpet. There were also paparazzi taking pictures and crowding around this gate to catch any glimpse of a movie star. So we joined in too, and soon after someone came by. Nick thought the crowd started yelling "yuckiii" and …

... seeing the airport rent-a-cops left over from Nazi WWII. Hopped a vaparetto to Lido (what song seems to have the Lido beach name dropped?). Slightly underwhelming for a world famous beach, but it was the Adriatic nonetheless. Blue everywhere. Did ...

... through a trash can for food. I know there is poverty everywhere else, but it seems more out of place in Venice.... We decide to go to Lido Beach, about a forty minute ferry ride away to enjoy the sunshine. We buy some fresh gelato and skip into ...

... ; We arrived at Camping Miramare in the early afternoon.  It’s at Punta Sabbione, at the Venice end of the long, sandy Cavallino peninsula which has Lido di Jesolo at the other end. They’d obviously had rain too but the sandy pitches had ...

... we took the advice of our good friends Mike and Wendy Mudd (who visited last year) and stayed out of the fray on Lido Beach ("the Lido".)  It’s about a 20-25 minute trip on the waterbuses (vaporetti) from Venice proper.  Our plan worked ...

... autostada to Treviso, for a surprisingly low €4.50; generally freeways cost about $1 for every 20klms. VENICE We opted to approach this legendary city from the Lido, the peninsula that forms part of the entrance to the lagoon, so we booked into a ...

... the beach. With the first bit of sun in the past 3 weeks i was itching to get to the beach. It was jsut a quick ferry ride to Lido beach and on the way i met 3 girls from Canada who i ended up hanging with for the rest of the day. The beach was beautiful ...

... Grand Canal!!! We go the ferry back at about 3 O Clock knackered again after a hard day walking around. Tomorrow is Lido Beach..... a small Island Beach which should be nice and relaxing and we can get the ferry from where we are and then were going to ...

... bridge of Ponte di Rialto and the beautiful Piazza San Marco and San Marco Church. Once it started to heat up, we headed out to Lido beach where we had heard good swimming could be found. The beach was quite big, and we found a nice spot to lay out. ...

... then got a bite to eat and coffee next to a canal in the small main street of the island. We jumped on another Waterbus to Lido beach to meet up with Jacqui and Amy. The Waterbus system was impressive and even though it was made up of large boats, it ...