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Day 3 Venice
Its Saturday morning. We sleep too late and miss our free breakfast. Bummer. And must check out of the Hotel Bains.. But its off to the mainland once again to find our next bed for the night. The Fontana Hotel- originally built in the 18th century and restored in 1984 overlooks campo San Zacarria- smack in the middle of the Venetian canals. Due to …
Day 4 - Venice to The Italian Riviera!
After no sleep for me at all- (Dolores snores!)..we are up at 6 am and amazingly out the door by 7am. After a quick croissant at our Hotel, we pay our bill (108 euors for the night) and RUN with luggage again to the Vaproretta- boat #42. It leaves literally within seconds and we are saying goodbye to Venice and hello to an 8:45 am Eurostar.( …
La Dolce Vita 5) Venezia (Venice)
So it was finally our time to visit the legendary travel destination of Venice. With increasing excitement we journeyed from Florence through Tuscany and finally over the long bridge to this island city. I usually try not to have 'great expectations' about big name travel destinations because I've often been disappointed by them; fortunately this …
A slow day in Venice
... the people who run them, is being able to make a cup of tea any time day or night. The highlight of today was going back yet again to La Columbina restaurant for our final meal with them - they are closed Monday (sob, sob). We had the most amazing mixed seafood Linguine, which we learned later is a classic Callabrian dish. The chef is Callabrian. We had Frtiz to drink to begin and the pasta and then a dessert ...
Colour and the origins of Venice
... There's not a lot on Torcello these days, but this is where the lagoon settlement started, and building techniques that were later used to build Venice were established. There are a couple of Gothic buildings, the remainder of some grand houses from times past, which now house the Torcello museum, and two churches, side by side. One is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, with a marble slab dating the founding of the church to 639 AD. The ...