Soooooooooo beautiful
soooooooooo romantic
soooooooooo I want to go back one day
how to describe this wonderfully different place. it is life. it is most definitely boats. and it is most defintely art and statues and 5 star hotels and gilt and masks. there are carnival masks, colorful, pretty. exotic, everywhere.
there are different kinds of boats. the gondola is expensive and yes, typical, but not really necessary unless you really have money to burn. there is a vaporetto, and especially the #1, which goes up and down the grand canal. you can get a all day ticket and get on and off as you please. you must validate the ticket BEFORE the first time you get on. no one tells you this. and the machine is small and nondescript. but the fine is plenty hefty if you don't do it.
i had a book - the DK travel book which - which showed every bldg in detail with a pic to follow along. interesting how people are different - Les was not remotely interested in what style of architecture or the history behind this or that edifice. i , on the other hand, feel i have not done justice to the city if i don't read up first.
he also doesn't understand the fun of the blog, and believe me, this was a tremendous effort on my part - he did NOT want me to spend time writing it .... had to sneak in any minute i could. and of course, unless you write at the moment of contact, the essence just isn't the same. but this blog is as much for me as for you, the reader .... i want to be able to read it and remember all the moments.
soooooooooo romantic
soooooooooo I want to go back one day
how to describe this wonderfully different place. it is life. it is most definitely boats. and it is most defintely art and statues and 5 star hotels and gilt and masks. there are carnival masks, colorful, pretty. exotic, everywhere.
there are different kinds of boats. the gondola is expensive and yes, typical, but not really necessary unless you really have money to burn. there is a vaporetto, and especially the #1, which goes up and down the grand canal. you can get a all day ticket and get on and off as you please. you must validate the ticket BEFORE the first time you get on. no one tells you this. and the machine is small and nondescript. but the fine is plenty hefty if you don't do it.
i had a book - the DK travel book which - which showed every bldg in detail with a pic to follow along. interesting how people are different - Les was not remotely interested in what style of architecture or the history behind this or that edifice. i , on the other hand, feel i have not done justice to the city if i don't read up first.
he also doesn't understand the fun of the blog, and believe me, this was a tremendous effort on my part - he did NOT want me to spend time writing it .... had to sneak in any minute i could. and of course, unless you write at the moment of contact, the essence just isn't the same. but this blog is as much for me as for you, the reader .... i want to be able to read it and remember all the moments.
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