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... 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 ...

... bigoli (fat spagh) with<br>scallops and mushrooms, bacala alla vicentina (baked creamed cod). Arrivederci<br>S&amp;G!!!!!!!!!<br>This has been an incredible trip <br>. We can,t wait to come back. We leave here tommorrow at 6AM for the airport.<br>I have taken over 200 pictures si I will upload them when we get home. Nothing here<br><br> really works with my camera or my cellphone. <br>

... 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 ...

... excuse of doing some treatments, I went out and bought her a necklace. When I returned, I convinced her to go for a walk, but just out of the hotel I asked her to get into the car, gave her the flower and with the help of a map, prepared at the reception, we arrived in Venice. The gondola brought us next to the restaurant and after dinner we returned back to the hotel and in the room we found a present from the hotel management: strawberries and ...

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 ...

... us was a gorgeous church called the Basilica di San Marco. We began by just walking into the middle of the square and snapping pictures of everything. It looked like something out of an old romance movie. There was a large area to sit and relax as a band (consisting of accordion, bass, little drums, and sax) played some mood music, that when you hear just makes you think of Italy. Then there was the area for feeding the birds. I could not pass up this opportunity and dropped the ...

... of the state," there were public executions and the like to keep everyone in order. Venice was settled by necessity of protection as the people retreated from the mainland onto the marshy islands to avoid attack, but soon Venice dominated the trade routes through the Mediterranean and collected huge taxes from the merchants, the wealth of which enabled the city to be built. (But you probably knew that...) Our first stop was glass-blowing which I won ...

... as well. It,s romantic and picturesque-a million times more than I ever wouldàve imagined. About half of the Venetians I,ve chatted with know english and there doesnàt seem to be a communication barrier with those that don,t. I had the best coffee of my life this morning and the perfect chocolato croissant to go with it. After wandering around, I had one of the best meals of my life. A glass of local(ish) wine, a bottle of still water ...

... me give you a few highlights - Tuscany is lovely, all rolling fields, stands of poplars and isolated villas standing on misty hills. Its EXACTLY like the postcards. The Italian Lakes are also gorgeous, but lacking museums and monument, I could only enjoy the rambling gardens, vast and expensive villas, and hope to see George Clooney on Lake Coumo! And Venice, well what more can be said. The whole sinking city is a monument to money and a stubborn desire to be different. The city of ...