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Grappa
... and the structure of towns from that age. It was small but we had good coffee. The only Problem was that we could not find the bus station to go back home. In the end we just stayed at the one and we were lucky, after 10 minutes there was a bus going to Padova. Yeah traffic in italy works a little differently. We found our way back home, and our bikes were waiting for us at the train-station (miracle).
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Bike painting
... on them. A friend said, it looks like my bke has a disease, but a very cute one. I like it. it is colorful and too distinctive to be stolen again, hopefully.
Other than that I went to the choir last night. We are singing Mozart. it was very nice. ...
We're on a boat!
Is wrong to go to a place just for it's name? I have always wanted to go to Chicken Alaska to have some Chicken so this week we got to do the next best thing - Parma ham in Parma!
We stopped by this gorgeous city (it is more than just about the cold meat after all) on the way to Padova (home to Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew) where we were going to visit Venice (the Merchant of...) and Verona (well you romantics out there hopefully ...
Gondola anyone?
Well the torrential rain from yesterday did clear up and we made our first foray into the winding narrow streets and canal system of Venice!
We took the early shuttle in (8:30 on a Sunday!) hoping we would miss some of the crowds but we soon found them round the Piazza San Marco and the Ponte Rialto.
Armed with our campsites attempt at a map we went in thinking it might be easier to just wander anywhere and then wherever possible ...
Venetian Bar Crawl
... cheese/meat on fresh bread to amazing salty pork meatballs.
We spent the entire day wandering from bacaro to bacaro drinking wine, taking in the canals and wandering the streets. Except for the occasional down poor, the day went perfectly. We took a break from the bar hopping to wander along the Grand Canal and over the famous Rialto Bridge. (Though we have to say the bridge was quite a ...