We spent the last 4 days in Venice. It really is an amazing place. We started off being shown to our apartment by a young lady who spoke not a word of english, which made for some interesting conversation... but it worked out in the end. There was only 41 stairs up to the room this time, which was a nice change! The apartment was great. Pretty much smack bang in between the Rialto Bridge and St Marks Square (Piazza San Marco). There are no cars or even scooters in Venice as the streets are just too small and full of people, so you walk everywhere or catch a Vaporetto (water bus). We checked out a couple of museums including the Peggy Gugenheim collection which was full of Dali and Picasso and others of similar ilk.
Caught the ferry out to Murano for a day to check out the famous glassware that comes from there, and the glass museum of course. Lots and lots of glass. Everything from small trinkets and beads to massive chandeliers and sculptures. We managed to find a factory with an open door policy so we could have a look see at how it was all done.
We went to a famous Cafe in St Marks Square back in Venice. It's called Cafe Lavena and has been in the same family for hundreds of years. The service was excellent, as was the hot chocolate and beer (which is all we ordered), but the bill came to a small fortune, so do it for the ambience(live string quartet) and then don't go back again for a while!
Well thats a taste of our adventures in Venice!
We've just arrived in Assisi, so I'll post more when we've done some stuff.
J
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