Venice today. All day. Matt and I were pretty proud of ourselves this morning. We went to the big market right by su and it was loaded with fish and fresh veg and fruit etc so we bought some peaches, apples banana for breakfast and also stopped and bought a fresh croissant each at the bakery. So good! We stopped and ate right under the Rialto bridge! After our European breakfast we wandered around to find the market to buy some things and in the mean time stumbled onto the Murano Glass factory (really the gallery) and were able to jump onto a group tour. We just sort of joined the group, they let us. It was really cool. We saw the guy blow the glass etc and then were ushered into a room full of hand made pieces! Wow! He talkeda bout how the colors are made and the designs etc. It was fun. Very expensive stuff the real thing! Wow!
After that we went a different way to St marks in hopes of finding the Bridge of Sighs. Big deal. Its covered in a huge billboard right now. Humph! Then we went to st marks and it was FULL of people!! So full! And also full of water!! High tide I guess? It was gushing out of the drain coveres and holes in the stone below us. Pretty amazing!
We decided not to wander into the mass of people and instead go to the other big Cathedral across the water. So that was a fun wander through the streets and squares until we were able to cross and keep wandereing. We managed to find a walk way that went along the water not facing the main part of Venice and that was funny because the high water was lapping up onto the walk way. Amazing how that works here. How does that work here?
We managed to find the church and had a look inside and it was pretty neat.
We walked to the end of the road so to speak to the customs house and that literally comes to a point. All of the sudden you are at the end. Pretty neat.
When we were headed back we both were starving so we had a slice of pizza. Again. Its so good and cheap here.
Once we got back to St Marks the water and people had subsided a bit and we were tired so we chose to sit and have a coffee there. Um…we just ordered a cappuccino, 2 please! And we sat in beautiful st. marks and enjoyed the view and the people watching and had our 10 euro coffee. 10 euros a piece. Yup! Live and learn. Matt was soaking it up though. He is loving it!!
Matt ended up buying these hand drawn watercolors and charcoal drawings of Venice made by the artists we met! So neat. He shook their hands etc. Really cool!
On our way back to the hostel for a quick break we stopped at the market and I also found a little shop with these huge vats of wine and they just pour it into bottles and off you go. Really cheap! So I bought one to try. Really cool!! Not that great a wine but still for the experience.
On our way back into the city we decided to seriously souvenir shop for the parents and ourselves etc just to get that done. It wasn’t hard. There is so much to choose from!
We wandered around the alley ways some more and ended up back at the Rialto bridge for some pasta dinner. Nothing spectacular but matt wanted to sit outside (the restaurants are so hot inside!!) so we had a nice break there. We wandered back towards St. marks so we could see it lit up at night and stopped at another café for a beer and I had an irish whiskey, by far the best one I’ve ever had ever!! Go figure. Not even the one in Ireland compares.
St. Marks wasn’t too busy. Not as lit up as we thought it would be but still amazing. We wandered down toward the big church to take pictures and Matt found this bottle with plastic glasses to prop his camera on and as we were standing there discussing it he said. Hey we need wine glasses don’t we? So we had a laugh and found 2 unused glasses (a traveler never passes up a freebie) and then for good measure we checked the bottle for liquid too (a traveler has to be resourceful!!) no luck there but still we scored glasses at least!
We had a nice wander back to the hostel and are now in bed and preparing to get up and wander back to the train station tomorrow to head to Rome. Oh boy!!
It’s a 4.5 hour train ride and we bought some food and drink to get us through this time so we are getting better prepared as we go. Its been so fun!!
I love Venice. Just like everyone says. It really is that amazing!
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