First the hotel brought us breakfast to our room. Who wouldn’t love this every day!
Then we headed over to the train. I will say Italy has this train thing down. We had reserved seats on the fast train. We had to do a lot of moving of people’s luggage but we finally were able to get Cheryl’s luggage in.
We arrived in Venice and made our way to the AirBnB. It’s a fantastic spot down a cute little alley3 bedrooms, 2 baths and a washing machine that we started using immediately as it takes 2 hours just to wash one small load.
Maryann, Grover and I headed to the grocery store to do some shopping.
On the way back, we found a cute shop that sold wines, cheeses, olive oils , etc. the shop keeper gave us sample to see what we’d like. I ended up buying, not only the olive oil I went in for, but also honey with truffles (that you keep
Adding honey to as the truffles last a long time), limoncello, some balsamic and a truffle pesto. Now to figure out where to pack it!
Once we were all here we got caught up on everyone’s trips and headdd our to take the vaporetto to St Marks Square.
On the vaporetto I had my first gondola sighting
Traveling by boat we got to see a lot of cool buildings. We passed the Geugenheim along the water as well as a couple of the bridges.
The cathedral is so beautiful and the mosaics at the doors were amazing.
We sat at Cafe Lavena and decided to have gelatos...but not just any old gelato. This place serves them all fancy with alcohol. I had the Coppa Tristano.
Oh so yummy! Good thing we’re doing so muchwalking...I need to work this off.
After that we jumped back in the vaporetto and headed to the Rialto Bridge. The sun was starting to set so there was a nice view and we did a bit of window shopping.
After that we headed back towards our place and had dinner at Reatoria Bar Pontini. Christina had found it and it had great reviews. So much so there was a line waiting to go in. We had a great server and some good wine. All in all a great first day together!
Up tomorrow: Murano and Burano
Noted for today: there are no bumpers on the vaporetto so some of the drivers may hit a bit hard. The driver we had on the way back really slammed into a dock and Christina, forgetting she was standing right next to the captains wheelhouse, said something along the lines of he doesn’t know how to drive (laughingly). I happened to lookup in time to see the captain roll his eyes makingan “oops didn’t mean for that to happen” face. When he got to our dock, he came in smoothly. Christina gave him a thumbs up and good job...made the guys day:-)
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