Venice

Venice is one of our favorite cities in Italy.  The moment we entered this "city of water" on a ferry, we fell in love with it.  It is calm, peaceful and lovely.  There are no cars, motorbikes, cyclists, buses, and trains in Venice.  There are only two modes of transportation: your legs and boat/ferry.  It was nice to be part of a community that functioned without motorized vehicles.

Venice is a city designed like a maze, because it is extremely easy to get lost, which is part of the fun.  On our meanderings, we went to St. Marco's square, the duomo and the Rialto bridge.  St Mark's square was music to our ears because of the dueling orchestras fighting it out by playing movie soundtracks, classical music and sterotypical Italian music.  The dumo was pretty and located in St. Marco's square.  Our last tourist attraction was the Rialto bridge, which is the oldest bridge in Venice and filled with lots of shops and restaurants.

On one of our nights, we organized our own pub crawl, which is really a wine crawl.  We had SO MUCH FUN (maybe a bit too much)!!!  We went to four different places and had glasses of red wine and some Venetian fried finger foods.  At our last stop, we met some really cool Americans ladies, who have been friends for over 30 years, doing a girls trip to Italy.  We also took pics w/ some fun Italian guys and then hung out with some more Americans and Italians. As mentioned above, a very fun night.

In our Rome post, we mentioned that the gelato in Rome was just a precursor of what was to come.  Well, in Venice, we had the BEST (one of the best) gelato at The Boutique Gelato.  It was great yumminess!!!!