A beautiful hot summer day on arrival, leaped on the bus for a slow trip down the Grand canal to our local stop. A little walk, some bridges (they love their bridges here) to our quite lovely hotel. A quick change into shorts and jandals and off we go. Hard to get lost here but not as easy to get back to where you want to the same way. Who cares, the Whalens took whatever road in front and saw and found whatever. St Marks square still the same for me except the pigeons were older. There are many renovations in St Marks so it doesn’t quite look the same but you can see what they mean.
..... not sure what I expected, but St Marks as a little bit of a disappointment for me.
As we are just about to leave Italy i would make the point that many of the world famous, ‘must see’ places we have been to are currently under various state of repair. This is quite encouraging to see although in some place not before time. The Vatican is a gr8 eg and we have before and after pics.
Back to Venice,OK. Very busy here with still many tourists and at least 5 cruise ships in also. Some great shopping here and we managed our share.
.... Loved Venice right from the start, maybe it’s the water and boats, little streets and walk ways, felt right at home straight away. Our hotel is awesome, quaint with stairs going up and down, through a courtyard, up more stairs to our room. Venetian style furniture and lovely and quiet.
Day two. A new day dawned on me again, this time much cooler. A nip in the air (and I’m not talking Japanese tourist) and finally some rain and wind. The grand Canal looked like Cook Strait in a southerly and today we are to visit the Island of Murano (glass), Burano (lace) and Torcello (cathedral).
..... From late 20s to low teens overnight, but didn’t spoil our great day. I could stand for hours on a bridge just watching the canals and activity on the water.
Choppy seas and very wet, luckily most of us dressed appropriately.
Early evening spent at a cafe having a few quiets looking out over the canal watching all the traffic including the cruise ship depart....quite special.
.... absolutely magic, the sunset, lots of boats, nice wine, nice company... you couldn’t ask for more. Roll on tomorrow when it’s us leaving in grand style down the canal.
We've met some great people over the last few days, even some that are doing the same cruise as us. Everyone seems interested that we are from NZ.
Tonight, a very special meal at a lov ely restaurant. We had a couple of really nice seafood dishes with grilled veges. Great i thought, some Kumera. But no, Grilled peppers, Zucchini and egg plant.
I had so much egg plant tonight people were calling me Murray on the way home.
Big day tomorrow, off cruising!!!!
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