Hotel Helvetia Terme Abano Terme

... smell of freshly baked croissants. MMMmmmmmm!!!! Yum! The breakfast was very tasty, here&#8217;s the pic) Italian coffee is great too!<br><br>I love the mornings in different towns, it's so interesting the moment the town begins to wake up, if you know what I mean.This moment in Venice is particularly beautiful and unique, you feel yourself not 21st but maybe in 14th of 16th century. It's like a wonderful fairy tale surrounding ...

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 ...

... one public one. You have to drink or eat to use their toilet; however, tonight I did beg one place and they let me go without eating. Anyway, we were sitting in the sun drinking wine and people watching on the main canal. It was great and then I spilled wine on Mick, so we had to return to our room and change. The funniest thing is that I spilled the wine because I asked a passerby to take our picture so when I was ...

... of French girls who were staying in our same hotel. With a little French and some Italian words we chatted and continued to walk together with them. We all went to the church of Sacro Cuore and through the Urban Thermal Park, a jewel of contemporary architecture, crossed by paved paths and rich in trees and plants. The next day, after fango, we visited Villa Savioli, then we went back to the hotel and went for a swim and tried the thermal grotto. We ...

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 ...

... find the attitude very appealing... but then again I don't have to - I only have eyes for one man and he's back in Brissy :) Speaking of Italian guys though, when we first arrived in Venice and got on the ferry (their no-road equivalent of a bus), this dodgy guy was smooshed up beside me. Not so weird in itself as it was a smooshy ferry but he had shifty eyes and nervous hands, which both mum and I noticed. He just kept staring at us and more worryingly, our luggage. I ...

... crossed and then went down to Zattere and then took another bus around the outside of the city to see the huge cruise ships. I then walked around some more and ended up around Rialto for lunch, where I got a pizza and some water (all in Italian). On the first bus, I met this boy traveling with his family from Ohio. They did Greece and the Greek Islands before Italy. Tonight they leave for Florence so I may meet up with them there. While ...

... attraction unto themselves in which people pay for seeds and crumbs and then let the pigeons fly on to them, climb their backs and eat off their hands. Yes, we're talking about the disease-ridden rats with wings that we have in the States. I even watched families plop their little kid on the ground, dump a bag full of crumbs and then let the little *******s run amok. Haha, smile Johnny, pet the pretty birds, hope you don't get syphilis or whatever virus those vermin are ...

... back home! We did see a glass blowing demonstration, and still managed to buy a fair bit even with space limitations. In the afternoon we went down the Grand Canal, wandered some of the streets and other canals, the Rialto Bridge and St. Mark's square. After a very full day, we planned to go out on the town for my 'last night' in Italy, unfortunately we were both so exhausted when we finished dinner at 10:30 we never made it off our island!