Venice
Travel Blogs from Venice, Italy
northern italy
after a wonderful christmas together, mum and i dived straight into the sightseeing, shopping, ...
Continuation of "observations"
... in on boats!) Was able to travel on a budget pretty well, can eat a sandwich lunch in Rome for ~2-3 euros and Venice ~ 4-5. (That's sitting on church steps with a bottle of water from the convent vending machine and a sandwich from the corner ...
Quick stop in Venice
... under does that mean we wont have enternal love? We ended back at our Hostel about 2am exhausted after a massive day of travelling. Venice is an amazing and romantic city. It has overtaken Paris as being the city of Love. We are now ...
Gondola of Love
... We soon found ourselves on a small jetty with a gondola stand. Gondola rides are the most outrageously expensive thing to do here in Venice, but they are practically essential. You can’t come here and not ride a gondola. So after a bit of haggling, ...
Venice - Day 1.5
Following morning after landing, took off to Milan city and right away left to Venice. Venice is absolutely a gorgeous city. Gelato, pizza, pasta, water taxis, the ambience is just AMAZING! Sunny days and relaxing outdoors, I couldn't ...
Final Day in Venice
... . I'll miss both the tour guides and our tour group. I wish them all well. On Thursday, my final day in Venice, I did more souvenir shopping, then visited the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. That visit was worthwhile. I especially enjoyed the sculpture garden. ...
Has Italy gone Magical?
... as much as we did, so we had another photography day. Luckily, I managed to learn some interesting facts about Venice while Sonnet talked to Criss. Transportation in Venice- water and walking. They eat traditional Italian food, like pasta. ...
Love Venice...!
Winding streets and canals: assolutamente bellissima! Saw St. Marks Basilica and the Dogges Palace - also touristville but easy to get around. Haad a gondola ride - see pic for proof and perve at the gondolier. He didn't sing to us but there was a ...
The Best Layed Plans...
... The alleys are dark but we were told that the crime rate is very low, almost non-existant. And what would a trip to Venice be without finding some Masks! Masks were everywhere. I wish we had had more time in the city, ...
Final Day In Venice - Sitting Around Day
... something to eat. I had a really good Pizza with German sausage on it, and it wasn't too pricey either, which is unusual for Venice. We then gradually made our way down to the south of the island, to the seafront and went to Billa, the supermarket and ...
12th & Disembarkation day of the Cruise
... to the station but we were determined to get to the piazza. As it would turn out…even though the quick walk through Venice was beautiful …we ran out of time and decided to catch the ferry back from San marco to the station…great idea ...
wild seas.
Nice weather in the morning. Went to top up the oil for the bike and got locked in the lower deck for a while. No one on deck as the weather turned. Found another way in. Dinner time. The sea got rougher and many people are getting sea sick. But our trio ...
Crazy Italians!!
Ciao, ciao!! Hope you're well. I am writing this message from Venice, Italy. For all you girls/ladies, yes, it is as beautiful and romantic as you see in the movies. There is something about being surrounded by water that adds something special to a ...
DAY 16 - Ferry from Corfu to Venice, Italy
DAY 16 - Ferry from Corfu to Venice, Italy It was a very, VERY early start today because we needed to catch the ferry at 6:30am! We got to the docks and found out that the ferry wouldn't be there til 9:00am. SPEWING!! So we hung around the docks, bored ...
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This is a test of allison pink and antony maanums travel blog. first entry coming ...
Carnivale di Venezia
... docking posts, humming water taxis, and crooning gondoliers on their polished black crafts. The festivities are rhapsodic and overblown; Venice is dignified and solemn. And the communion of the two, much in the spirit of the carnivalesque, is strangely ...
Venezia - City of Bridges
... of a late entry for when this actually took place, but I promise to try and stay more on track with this blogging thing!! So Venice was awesome! It feels like you're stepping into a private, secluded world as soon as you get off the train - the ...
Sunny in Venice
Hey everyone - I got into Venice early this morning on the sleeper train, which was pretty cool. We were greeted by sunny skies today, which was a 180 degree improvement from rain and sleet in Munich. We took the boat over from Fusina, where we're ...
Gondola city!!
... water taxi for a ride into dinner at an old hotel in Venice. Dinner was OK-the canal ride after wards at night through Venice was awesome. The next day we had an early start off to a glass-blowing demonstration. Not much of a demonstration-lasted all of ...
Venice
... first. So that left me 4 hrs roughly to explore Venice. Not much for a city but it's enough on the sampler platter of Italy. Venice is a beautiful city. Rode the water taxi around to St. Mark's square, took a bunch of pictures there, wanted to slap ...
Venice!
Wow - I need to catch up on our 2 days in Venice - definately exceeded our expectations and we all had a wonderful time! On Wed morning we woke up by 6:30 to get on the road by 7. We started out with Arica dropping the keys down the grate which gladly ...
Venice & Lido Island
... demonstration of glass-blowing as they have done it for centuries....quite something to see! What a strange but beautiful place Venice is. The architecture, the fact that no vehicular traffic exists other than on water, the canals everywhere, the ...
Venice - Day 2
The next morning at 7:30 the bells at the church next door rang and woke us loudly. They had rung the previous evening but didn't sound so nice waking us up! The Hotel had been a monastery next to the church many years ago. The girls went right back ...
Day 18 - Driving to Venice
... has ESPN and Grant finds a football game. First thing we do is take a swim on the rooftop pool that looks out over Venice. Almost worth the $$$$ . The pool is full of people talking english in rich american accents We miss the privacy of our own ...
Ah, Venice
We were very lucky yesterday when we reached Venice. By chance someone else on our flight had contacted the hostel we were staying at to book transportation from the airport and we were able to tag along in the van. We pulled up to what ...
Venice, Lido & Grado
... our destination; we found our car parking straight away at Tronchetto. A short walk and then we caught the sky train to the bottom of Venice. It was absolutely heaving, the sun was out and it was like being in a jam jar full of ants. Hot, sweaty and not ...
The day we spent a week in Venice!
... we can all hear the details no matter how crowded it got.) She began our tour with the Doge's Palace, the former ruler of Venice. She explained that even though the Doge was the ruler, he was basically a figurehead who was advised and watched over ...
Misty mornings and sunny afternoons
... of glorious, warm sunshine. Today was beautiful. We picked up some glassware - Murano glass is pretty neat, and something Venice is famous for - and spent the day strolling around again. Amazingly we didn't get lost yet, though we likely ...

