Foresteria Valdese
Travel Blogs from Venice
Carnivale in Venice
Apparently I was a very bad person in some previous life. After a string of seemingly endless back luck (remember the Giubiasco Fiasco, missing Egypt, several visits to the ER, a wrecked knee, a stolen bike, and various other contretemps that have not been documented – none of it my fault, of course ;) … ) I figured that I'd had my fair …
Venice arrival and lunch
Venice 10/25/2011 -arrival and lunch
Italians are different. We go to lunch the first day in Venice in a loud crowded cafe. There is a family next to us 2 young kids maybe 2 and 3 years old. One starts to cry very loudly. The waiter looks at the kid and mock cries at the top of his lungs, the kid cries louder, he yells louder, the kid …
May 23-24: Venice
so we got ourselves to the train station the morning of the 23rd and found out that one of the times we had looked at was only on the weekend so we had over an hour to wait, but it gave T a chance to see it all in slower motion and i was able to show her some of my tricks for finding the right train and knowing which stop to get off, etc. we chose …
Venetian Dreams
... 8217;s at night reminded me of the leaning tower of Pisa. There are all these wonderful buildings there, and the stars in the night sky, and the little cafes, just like you see in the movies. They are all there. However, two feet to the right there are about twenty hustlers trying to sell you ****** souvenirs or shoving flowers in your face which they then demand you buy... Mike gallantly defended me from one of those. Still, if you close your eyes and hold ...
Doge's Palace and heading to Florence
... very promptly and we enjoyed another ride along a different route this time on the Grand Canal. It took about 15 minutes to get there. Our train was at 4.57pm so we went and found a little cafe at the station and had an icecream till the platform for our train was shown on the indicator board around 4.40pm. Then we boarded the very sleek looking high speed train, Florence- bound. As I had got a huge discount on the ticket by booking well in advance, I had treated us ...