I never knew that you could have a 45 minute ride on a gondola. We skipped a lot of the other places so we would be very close to the bridge of sighs which we went in and under the bridge. when we started we got a guy called Morano who had been doing it for 35 years. I was the question asker because I asked about 30 questions and some really silly questions like did the game Marco Polo come from the explorer Marco Polo? To communicate with other boats and tell them you are turning they yell “Oy!”. After we finished our tour we went to dinner which I will tell you about in the next post.
Category Archives: Venice
Meet the Mambelli’s
Intended to add this several days ago…
Italian Beach Time
Time to move on. Sydney was really sad to leave Venice, she said it would be great to wrap up the city and put it in her pocket. When we asked if she liked it that much she said “Better than Disneyland.” A true compliment!
But it is that time, off to the the other coast of Italy and the seaside town of Viareggio. The boat taxi driver was great, gave us one last tour of the Grand Canal before we picked our our car. An interesting drive, we went from 33 degrees c and humid in Venice to 22 degrees c and rain in the Apennine Mountains to 29 degrees c and not too bad on the Mediterranean coast of Italy. We arrived with time to hang out on the beach for several hours then to go out in the vibrant beach night scene. A nice town, Kim said it reminded her of the Jersey shore. Only with real Italians I reminded her. Her response you can only guess at…
The sad Syd leaving Venice…
The Rialto Bridge.
The GoPro view of the beach at Viareggio.
Viareggio