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... 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 ...

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 ...

... the owner's whims and managed to get more of our shopping in. We then talked to a few gondoliers and were quoted prices which I knew to be higher than the already exorbitant price of a typical night-time gondola ride, before finding an honest gondolier. He took us through many back canals, told us about his family who live in Orange County, explained that the singing of gondoliers originated merely as a way to alert other gondoliers as to your presence ...

... 4 hours late picking up Becky's mom at the airport yesterday. Fortunately, between yesterday and today we were able to fit all our scheduled sites in including a slow boat ride down the main Canal. I saw a buch of cruzers, much like Patton Ave back home in Asheville. Except of course they had boats. I feel sorry for the garbage men in Venice. Because no cars our allowed, they have to use carts to collect and transport the ...

... against the canals. The whole place is extremely picturesque, even at night...luckily last night was clear...so we are still taking many, many pictures. We have now been through a 512g, a 1g, and halfway through a 256g for memory cards. We will say goodbye to Venice and Italy tomorrow at 6.45am when we depart for Vienna, Austria. We are sad to leave Italia and have already decided to make it part of our ...

... on our bus from Thailand didn't have a visa. The poor kid had to take a train to Germany and then wait for a new visa. After a night with in Slovakia with crazy men yelling at us to "shut flip up" we awoke the next day to final make our way home at 3am once again.

... world air to it. Being Italians, the Venetians all believe they are by far the best &amp; fastest driver around. The fact that they're on water doesn't stop them from practicing their Grand Prix maneuvers &amp; braking techniques. The gondola drivers, though, have accepted their fate, pushing &amp; proding their way through the narrow streets