Hotel Garden Terme Abano Terme

... I was walking and imagining how people used to leave here for centuries starting from Medieval times when Venice was the center of the Europe. Walking through that almost empty and peaceful tiny streets I could feel all the history of this gorgeous town. This was the REAL Venice. <br><br>I was just walking through this tale enjoying the morning when at about 10 o'clock 1000 of noisy, loudy tourists filled this wonderful place and began to ...

We are traveling today to Siena and won't be able to communicate for awhile so wanted to give a big shout out to our friend John Ruppe. Have a good one bro, we love you!! We also wanted to tell the Heavens above to give Mick's Grandpa Ted a kiss and hug and ask to ...

Wed vap to Lido, walked down Viale St. Maria Elizabetta, had coffee, kids dressed as<br>San Martino (Nov 11), spoke with gardener about lavander, walked to Hotel Des<br>Bains and beach (capanas). Walked back down viale, vap past St. Mark's Sq. to<br>Accademia Bridge in Canal Grande. Walked to Ristorante da Raffaele GREAT.<br>Minestrone, risotto di radicchio rosso &amp; shrimps, roast ...

... into Mick I spilled the wine ,right? But get over this the guy took the picture of us with the wine spilled anyway I am attaching both and you will see. Met a lot of nice people today, (Americans) because we were wearing our Cardinal stuff. I did not know there were so many Americans. You are afraid to talk because right away you get the cold shoulder from the Italians so you just stop talking to people and you ...

... be cuddle by the sulphurous waters. We never wanted to get out from the warm thermal swimming-pools! The thermal water has a constant temperature and helps the muscular relaxation and the lessening of pain, supporting rehabilitative exercises and the movement of all the body. Our friend, thanks to this, has been able to spend some days without any back pain... at last! She had benefit from it also after she returned home. But the water is not the ...

We made our first trip to Venice today after a failed attempt of getting on the wrong train and going all the way to Slovenia! We were happy that we got it right this time! And since it is January, it was a bit on the cold side. But we had fun exploring and getting lost. I had no idea Venice was so big. We must have ...

... too!) and this crazy shoe shop (the pictures will explain better than I can). In one of these said back alleys, Mum started hugging what I thought was a random stranger, but in fact was someone she works with at Ipswich! On the other side of the world. In one of hundreds of tiny Venetian alleys. Bizarre. The prices here are astronomical... I thought Switzerland was expensive, but it's got nothing on Venice. Mind you, as we discovered, it depends where you eat. Dinner ...

... place in Venice right now! Just my luck, as I looooove modern and contemporary art. The festival showcases many artistic components including dance, and so I was stoked to find out that there were dance performances every night. I went to one last night.....aaaaand it was amazing. The dancers were all from Italy, and there were only four of them and a narrator type person. Though I couldn't understand what the narrator was saying, I'm ...

... was that the first place I was going was Venice, one of the worst places to go to after becoming acclimatized to Eastern European prices. I basically had one full day in Venice, partly because it is so damn expensive and partly because I had to be in Spain before the end of August. Venice is like the Royal Tenenbaums of cities. Ask one person and they'll swear it's the greatest thing ever. Ask another and they'd say the city might as well sink into the murk it was ...

... really nervous that the plane would be leaving with Nichole, but not me. I understand that it was my own stupidity, but ROME LET ME LEAVE!!! I thought I was okay, since they let me go. I just wanted to get home. Good thing we got there to early, because it meant that they could hold the plane for me until we heard from Dublin, because I was there to check-in before they closed it. Luckily, they took pity on me, and let me on the plane. But, I know that Rome ...