Venice
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Venice,
Italy
Monday, September 10, 2007
Hey all,
left the Ferrari factry and free camped next to a campsite on the mainland across from Venice. The next morning we drove into the campsite, made good use of the showers (ahhh, hot water!) and caught a boat over to Venice to check out the fabled city, home of Casanova and the Carnivale of Venice.
Wow, what a beautiful city. Canals everywhere, the famous gondolas (up to 70 euro a pop though so gave that a miss), beautiful old buildings that stepped right out onto the water. We had been told it is very expenisve, and it is but only in certain areas otherwise there are some reasonably priced places to eat and buy goodies.
Didn't have a map so just wandered randomly around the city which was really pleasant. Jen was on a mission to buy a mask, and we ended up in a little store with a workshop out the back. We had a good chat with the lady there who explained all about masks, how they were made and so on. There are only a few places left like hers where they still make masks at the shop so it was great for us otherwise we would have ended up at some little tourist stand buying a 'tourist mask' ie not the real thing which was what Jen wanted. There was a beautiful gold half mask with orange feathers that caught Jen's eye but we decided to wander around a bit longer to check out other stores as well. However, the rest turned out to be quite toruisty so we ended back at the workshop where Jen brought the gold mask and Cy and I brought one as well for the house that we don't own yet. Our mask is the famous theatrical symbol 'Tragedy & Comedy', 2 faces, one crying and one laughing in brushed gold. It will look awesome on our non-existant feature wall. Venice is also famous for its glassware - tableware, jewellery, so on. Beautiful stuff but after buying the mask, which wasn't planned, we gave that a miss.
The next day we hung around the campsite doing the usual van stuff which always gets put off. Then we headed to Verona, home of Juliet, to visit Cy's Italian family, the Zamperini's. Got there that evening and free camped in a carpark next to their house with an inivitation to coffee in the morning.
More soon.
Ants & Cy
Ps Marie, we bought a little pressie for you as well from the mask shop.....
