The things we love..: Venice

09.01.2012 - Monday, day 21

On the Gondola

I love it! This place is amazingly beautiful. It is everything you hear about and so much more. The entire island is clean and harmonious and relaxing. There are little canals and bridges everywhere, so of course there are no cars only boats and gondolas! Expensive? YES! $10 for a Latte whilst sitting in the square and $15 for a toasted ham and cheese sandwich! But there is not much else to do here except sit and eat & drink! Oh and you can feed the pigeons and monstrous size seagulls that are like kamikaze’s flying at you from every direction!

For those of you that don’t know, I have a fear of birds so initially this for me was like being in hell! I got used to it though. I had no choice! Lol.

For our anniversary, I arrived in the hotel to find red roses, chocolates and champagne courtesy of my husband, and since our room is overlooking the canal we were able to have dinner at a canal side restaurant only a hop, skip and jump away.

This morning we had our own private water taxi from the hotel to Murano Island where you can watch them making glass products, and then they try to make you buy gifts which are way out of your price range! A good experience though, we literally stepped onto the boat from our hotel backdoor and it was nice having it all to ourselves to enjoy the view. We also went on a gondola ride this afternoon which was good, expensive (80 euro for 40mins) but I guess it’s something that when you are in Venice you just have to do. It’s nice to be able to stand at our hotel window and look down to see the gondola’s go past and hear the guys singing typical Italian love songs.

Tomorrow we are off to Salzburg in Austria for two nights. Good to speak to our Mum’s on Skype this morning, we are missing home and a healthy diet!

Take care of yourselves,

xxx