Hotel Villa Pannonia
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Venice
September 21
Eurostar to Venice was great - 4 1/2 hours in comfortable, reclining seats drinking red wine and smoking Camel while watching the beautiful Italian countryside roll by at 120 kms per hour. Arrived in Venice at a civilised hour and caught the 52 waterbus to Lido, then walked from the wharf to our hotel - the Pannonia.
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Venice..
... with the use of every colour and type of marble imaginable is incredible.
Unfortunately, the Doge Palace and Basilica had queues longer than any we had encountered previously. I guess we may be a little "Basilica'd out"... :)
We eventually made our way out of the piazza and found solace in ...
Day Eight, Italy’s Incomparable Venice
... wine, bread, caprese salads with EVOO and sea salt, spaghetti pescatore, then tiramisu and espresso. Not the best, but we were all so hungry that we greedily ate it all up.
Anthony and I took a nighttime gondola ride and it was one of the most surreal (in a good way), romantic things I have done. I trailed my fingers in the water, we had rosé prosecco, and a guitarist was accompanying a man singing- not only all the classics, but a little Andrea Bocelli was thrown in for ...
Australian to the rescue!
... to makeshift into decor while I was there because it was too damn cute not to. I don't know how I'll use these in the house yet. But one day I'll redecorate and they'll need to go up!! After making our way through the deserted island of Torcello, which hosts some of Venice's great history, we saw the enormous glass sculptures at Murano. They produce some of the most beautiful glass jewelry here. I may regret not purchasing some. Our evening brought us back to the Rialto ...
VENEZIA! Gondola Riding
... these huge things around our neck that would connect to channels and from there you could listen to the tour director. Genius but tacky and heavy and mine kept going in and out so if I wanted to listen I would literally have to stand next to the tour director. I heard some interesting facts such as :
- Venice's population rate which has increasingly lowered over the years from 160,000 to 60,000 in the last 40 years and it is losing 1,000 residents every year
- Venice's ...
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- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Pets allowed