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Murano through the looking glass
... dinner in Venice at an intimate little restaurant near our B&B. It was a great meal, and we ended with our usual gelato (I'm sure we will go through gelato withdrawal when we get back home). As this is being written, Mike, Jan and Ed are playing phase 10....yes, we have them addicted to this game. Tomorrow we are ...
They Even Have Fancy Butt Towels!
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We walked to the bell tower, but it looked packed. So, we’ll try to do it first thing tomorrow. Instead, we walked past the Doges Palace (another landmark of this city) to the lagoon and did some more people watching. The crowd here was a bit off putting, so we left to wander streets some more. We stopped for some gelato (they do much smaller scoops here than elsewhere in ItalyL). We both ...
Arrived in Italy!
... have a little chuckle - this gentleman had to resort to Thomas the Tank Engine noises and actions to explain i had to take the train shuttle to get to a different terminal! Right. So instead of soaking up my three hour stopover in Paris I bought a bottle of water and a touristy little handbag! After it felt like I had taken the long way to arrive in Venice i have finally made it to this amazing city! I have to keep ...
The streets of Venice
... the square fairly quickly allowing us to get some crowd free photos. There is a tourist info centre in the square and it was there that we found a cheaper way to do the gondola, for 39 euro we could do a walking tour and a gondola ride.
While in San Marco Square we saw what we can only describe as some sort of wedding celebration. First there was a girl on top of a hand held carriage being led by some musicians. Then another group arrived with mostly males with ...
The Sinking City!
... there and oh my goodness it is seething with tourists! People and pidgeons everywhere. Of course, we don't feel we belong in the "tourist" category because they mostly look tired and are just walking behind their guides like automatoms whereas we are thrilled to be there.
The next day we buy our vaporetto tickets for 72 hours and we can now just hop on and off as we please - gives you a lot of freedom. We head over to Murano Island to check ...
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