Originally Venice was not on our plan, but knowing how much I wanted to go there, Stephen, being the legend he is, co-ordinated a trip for us to Venice for the day.
We got up early and hopped a train from Rome to Venice, 3 hours later we arrived!
Funny Story: While waiting for Stephen at the train station, a group of tourists approached me to ask a question. An older gentleman, pointing at me says "Italia", to which I respond, smiling, saying "No". He stares at me for a minute then turns to his group and says " Brasil (Not Brazil)" to which I smile and shake my head and say "No, I'm from New Zealand". He looks at me for a minute, perplexed then smiles and says "Ah, INDIA" . Way off old school!)
Funny Story: While waiting for Stephen at the train station, a group of tourists approached me to ask a question. An older gentleman, pointing at me says "Italia", to which I respond, smiling, saying "No". He stares at me for a minute then turns to his group and says " Brasil (Not Brazil)" to which I smile and shake my head and say "No, I'm from New Zealand". He looks at me for a minute, perplexed then smiles and says "Ah, INDIA" . Way off old school!)
I decided I wanted to do a Gondola ride first thing in the morning, it was quieter in the canals and it looked to be high tide, so we wandered along the grand canal until we found a Gondola we would be happy to ride.
It was so nice and peaceful to ride on the water through the streets, I think we only saw one other gondola while we were out there. Romantico!
After that we wondered the streets looking at the market-like-stalls set up everywhere. We followed the crowds through the narrow streets over to St Mark’s Square and sat down with our giant 5 foot map to figure out where else we might want to go.
We ate pasta on far canal (HAHAHA) and then jumped on the taxi boat and rode it for an hour, just to see where it went.
What I loved about Venice ? No vehicles, artists painting everywhere, and the people.
There were random service workers with dolly's walking around carting peoples luggage from the boats to the hotels, power walking through the streets. I was pretty impressed with their ability to maneuver through that many people with the swiftness in which they moved.
We wandered some more and finished our day in Venice with some delish gelato (+ 5 pounds).
Venice was awesome!
1 comment:
I love the story about wondering what you are...hahaha...gotta love people and their guessing skills :) It looks beautiful...I am trying very hard not to covet your trip ;)
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