Tuesday; Venice
Venice for us meant hotel rooms!!! We arrived, ate a very nice dinner restaurant, Dante’s where I had pasta and a vegetarian soufflé. Alex, Ian, Michelle and I drank some Italian wine and returned home for n early night.
The following day we took a bus into Venice and did a walking tour with Lindsay. I was amazed that she didn’t get lost walking through all those winding streets. There was a live band playing alongside the main canal and we sat and listened to the band. After that we went and visited a glass making house where a very Italian man sat alongside a furnace, cigarette in mouth, and effortlessly crafted a horse out of a piece of hot glass. We were very impressed! After glass we went to a lace making house where the most gorgeous old lady explained the process to us and the reason why it is becoming a threatened profession (It takes 7 ladies 8 months to make one of the larger pieces so the government subsidises their wages).
Next we had a gondola ride where we had to get into groups. All of the single guys got together in one gondola for form a “man boat’ and all the gondoliers, who were standing alongside the vacant gondolas, were in hysterics at the sight. Our ride was very romantic… apart for the section of the trip where Alex suggested we should look for poo fish as the sewerage is emptied straight into the canals… yep the water is the equivalent of liquid death. After our ride we went looking down side streets for some lunch. We found a really lovely place and, as we lingered over wine, antipasto and pizza it began to snow.
We finished off our day with some shopping which ended only when I was reluctantly dragged from the countless mask shops I tried to enter. Back on the main land we had pizza for dinner and then a few drinks at a bar before packing our bags and going to bed.
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