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Travel Blogs from Venice
Venice Venice Venice!
... I think a reason I liked Venice was it reminded me of mum. Everywhere I turned I thought of you mum because I knew you would love it here. You would LOVE all the gelato and little bakeries and I can picture you in Venice easily haha! I thought I was getting sick of pasta and pizza but I'm not, it's the best excuse to eat my favorite things for lunch and dinner everyday! Very excited for Rome tomorrow! (it's our last busabout bus ah!) Lisa out! ...
Venice
... on and bought tickets! It was actually amazing. The acoustics were unbelievable with no microphones needed to pump out Vivaldi. It was a blast from the past for me as I recognised the music from a CD Mum used to blast when she would vacuum the house when we were kids.
We bought a 24 hour ticket for the river ferries and seemed to be a little special when reading the timetables. Hugh and I had got up early for a walk one morning and ended ...
With Venice you get rain!
Oh my, Venice. To be honest, I never thought I would ever see Venice. It's one of those spots on your places to see map, but I never thought I would be able to change my red push pin to a green one. I just wish it had been a little drier. It is not very pleasant walking around such a beautiful city in a cold drizzle. Since Venice is an island, we boarded a train on the mainland to ...
Pretty is an Understatement
... the tour, we spent some time in the alleyways around San Marco. Although interesting at first, you'd get bored after a few hours. We went back to the hotel to rest and had dinner near the hotel. We wanted to try their specialty Spaghetti Nero Seppia (Squid Ink Spaghetti). All restaurants seemed to have it so we went to a random restaurant. It wasn't that good though. We explored ...
The Classic Water City
... out in recognition of a plaza that he couldn’t possibly have been in before (never having been to Venice before). "I know this place! There’s… there’s a doorway into the Basilica just around that corner, and a back gate for the tower just hidden past that construction gate. I know this place, I did my best sniper-shooting from that balcony over there!" As it turns out, the makers of the stealth video game Assassin’s Creed are incredibly historically accurate.
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