How can one ever describe a vacation in Venice? We left London for a 2 hour £55 cab ride to our Ryanair flight to Trevsio Italy. Flew right over the Swiss alps, on a beautiful clear day. From Treviso, we bussed to Piazza Roma then took a water taxi to Per Rialto, then Sarah navigated Lloyd and Judy by foot through several of the winding streets and paths to our Hotel, San Lio. We chilled out that evening, Lloyd experiencing a little culture shock.
Lloyd's description 'a marvelous place to get lost from the world'. Judy's description 'a magical place to visit'. Sarah's description 'Italian's love their open bars'.
While in Venice we visited/toured/walked all over St. Mark's Square and surrounding area, then took a water taxi to Murano, Burano and Torcello islands and saw glass blowing, lace making and the ruins of the oldest known church in Italy.
Other notes of interest include Sarah giving Judy a lesson in dealing for purses on the African market, more interesting was seeing Judy putting those lessons to real use. Also as all tourists do in St. Marks square we fearlessly fed the pigeons. Our diet during our stay there consisted of pizza, pasta and more pizza.
Lloyd wonders how many mystery novels include Venice as an escape route or a way to hide from the law. By the end of our journey in Venice we were so confident in our navigation skills we walked all the way from Per Rialto to our bus stop in Piazza Roma, a one hour hike through streets, paths, bridges, canals, waterways, squares and trails.
Upon our arrival back at Stansted airport we were greeted by our private cab driver who took us on a 2 hour, hair raising 80 mph ride back to Sarah's flat.
Lloyd's dinner back in England was traditional English banggers and mash which he really enjoyed.
2 comments:
Life in Cavendish is going to be pretty boring after all these wonderful travels!
Hope you have lots of pictures!
Oh, yes, Lloyd, I forgot to say "Great picture of Judy and the pigeons!"
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