Lost in Venice
Trip Start
May 14, 2008
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Trip End
May 30, 2008
May 28 - Ca' Angeli wins my Italy Vacation Best Breakfast Award hands down. Even the coffee is good. We have pre-arranged for a guided walking tour of Venice this morning. Bonnie has requested Marco to guide us, as he had done for them two years ago, and we're pleased when the tour company sends Marco to our hotel for the tour. Marco is charming and very knowledgeable and takes us on a two-hour walking tour full of historical information, current Venice problems, tips for getting around and a few spots outside the normal tourist route, like the open air fish market. We also visit a horse and burro meat butcher shop, meat which Marco says they started to eat after the mad cow disease hit Europe. He thinks it is delicious but we do no sampling. Venice is still the most difficult place to find one's way around. Marco was a great guide, but I'm still lost most of the time without a guide. Gary seems to be able to get around pretty good, but this place is more challenging for him than anywhere else we've been on this trip.
