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The beautiful floating city - Venice
... garbage, couriers, taxis etc. We spent our first evening back at the refuge camp and had a party with wine and snacks in the laundromat room to make our chores more entertaining. Joys of backpacking. The following day we went back into Venice but abit later so that we could spend the arvo/evening in there. We spent the morning hanging around the refuge camp, lucky they have a ...
Murano & Palazzo Ducale
... for the month of August so we were pretty limited on what we could see. Luckily there was one place giving a demonstration so we watched that which was pretty cool. He first made a vase then explained how they have to be cooled slowly or they will shatter (which it did after a few mins), and he also put a piece of paper inside to show how hot it was (it instantly burnt). Next he made a ...
European pathway
... was the castle/ palace overlooking the city. I climbed their famous astronomical clock for amazing views of the sloped rooftops, beautiful squares, narrow terraces and the scattered tower spires. I also visited the Jewish ghetto, which was pretty moving and informative. They have a graveyard where hundreds of gravestones are all stacked up on each other. At the end of the time in Prague my feet were about to fall off with all them kilometres I was covering on ...
Romance in Venice
... to sit in and relax. Jon even made friends with a jack russell terrier who he petted for a half an hour, he was so sweet. After we finally found our way back to our B&B, it was time to meet up with some more friends from Livermore. Seriously, how random of a trip that we get to spend time with people from home all the way across the world, love it!
We met up with Adam and Maggie at our place ...
There are a lot of merchants in Venice!
... do a walkabout of the area around our hotel. We haven't been to Venice in 26 years, and from first appearances nothing much seems to have changed. However there does appear to be a lot more tourists around, and we discover that a series of the Americas Cup is being staged in Venice this week. We manage to see a number of the yachts practicing along the waterway in front of our hotel. It's quite a majestic sight. The other change ...
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