Venice
Trip Start
Mar 02, 2006
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Trip End
Mar 19, 2006
Venice, Italy
Monday, March 13, 2006
We are staying maybe 150 meters from the train station, down a little alleyway next to one of the busiest streets. The best way to get around here is by Vaperetto (water bus). The winding, very confusing streets, are tiny and difficult to navigate. Sometimes the streets are so narrow, only one person can fit down them at a time. They are cobbled and suddenly open up onto a stunning view of a church (which you have to crane your neck to see the top) or a lavish marble bridge spanning the water.
Stores are modern, but set into old stone niches. You walk into a narrow store (one or two persons wide) and it goes up several floors, or you walk back a long way. There is no supermarket in the city, although we found one that is the size of the old True Value Hardware store....I finally found Pepsi Lite!!!
A church of Venice
! (Sweet nectar of the gods)The people are very friendly, but I can see why Americans have the negative stereotype....loud and obnoxious everywhere they go.
I found Opera tickets for Rachel and I, and I am taking her out on a date tomorrow night. Vivaldi and Opera Baroque, I think. It will be fun.
After this we board a train for Sorrento (A sleeper train) and we will visit the Mediterranean Sea and try and make it to Pompeii.
Rachel - WOW... words cannot explain this second week, but I'll try! The first week on the tour we spent so much ime listening to back history of the country that we only got to see certain spots of the cities, but now on our own we're relaxed and seeing anything we want to, and if we want to expolre shops and side streets we can with out getting in trouble we can. We've seen so much more of Venice than anywhere else we've been...
