Venezia

Today we traveled from Rome to Venice which was about 4 hours by train. I truly had no idea what to expect when we got here. Of course I have seen pictures and videos, but until you exit the train station and are standing near the Grand Canal you have no idea. It’s such a unique and special place. 

We are staying in a cute little apartment hosted by the sweetest lady, Laura. She has thought of everything and even made a little book of information for everything we could want to know. This was her late mother’s home and she has excellent reviews in her guestbook. It’s funny though because we are only allowed to run one appliance at a time. It’s hot here and we had to turn the fan off for Brian to make coffee. I did a load of laundry while we went out to dinner. Being creative with our use of electricity will be of importance for a couple of days. 

We spent our day walking with Brian (everyone) looking at his phone Pokémon Go style. Everyone using google maps to help make sense of the labyrinth that is Venice. It didn’t take too long to find our place, and it didn’t take too long to get lost again. Getting lost here seems like it’s part of the fun. It’s really hard to even explain the area. Just google it. You’ll see it way better than I can explain. 

We started with some food from an award winning street food spot. It was pretty good. Honestly pizza isn’t too hard to mess up, but we have been able to point out some that are better than others. I think they may have been in this Netflix documentary. I’ll check that out once we are home. 

The rest of the day was spent walking around and peeking into shops, sitting in the shade, and eating some good gelato. Funny thing is that we really have not bought anything on this trip. A couple little things for the girls but that’s it. We are traveling with backpacks and space is very limited. What we are saving in souvenir shopping, we are spending on gelato. It evens out I supppose. 

We were really surprised this evening when we found that the rising tide had flooded the piazza. I had heard it happens at a certain time of the year, but there is was! 

The last part of our day was the sunset quest. We had scoped out the bridges to see where we would return later for the show. It wasn’t a spectacular sunset, but the combination of the boats steering around each other made for a nice relaxing evening. Enjoy the pics. I am going to sleep. See you tomorrow.