You're going to have to deal with some pictures that are bit out of order and this dumb line that has appeared under the text. It'll have to do, I'm on a small lap top without a mouse. It's driving me nuts! I thought I'd upload pictures of our first day in Venice. We caught the train and rode in. The weather was a bit cooler than expected. We didn't dress quite warm enough. After buying 3 scarves and a cap we were set! Here we are enjoying Gelato. We love exploring things in the Rick Steve's travel books. He said this was the "best" in Venice. It was good but I still think the one he recommended in Rome was better.
Posing next to some gondola's by the sea. It was windy and just COLD. Lauryn loves creating new looks with her scarves.
Here we are in
Piazza St. Marco (piazza is a plaza or Square) In this particular area a guy had a camera stand set up with opportunities to feed the pigeons and he'd take the picture. yada yada. Gross and disgusting huh? Who wants a disease filled pigeon on you??? :-) Some HOT man with 4 beautiful kids walked up to me and asked if he could take my picture. Here I am!
The grand canal. It was fun to watch the gondola's cruise by.
Little canals and fun houses lined them. We loved looking at the architecture everywhere.
This was our ride back to the train station. It was cheaper to all ride back in this than to take the big boat taxi. For those that don't know, Venice is a car free city. All the transporting is done by the water taxi's or gondola's. It's not the cheapest transportation but it does the job. Speaking of not being cheap...we spent about 30 DOLLARS to use the public toilets today. Crazy huh? Each person was in euro 1.50 which isn't cheap. And, upon asking a few restaurants/hotels if we could let a child about ready to wet their pants use their toilet we were kindly told NO! In all, we had a great day in Venice. Tomorrow we drive into Venice to park at the cruise terminal. We'll board the ship around 1pm. We won't be back online until after the cruise, I refuse to pay for internet onboard.
Posing next to some gondola's by the sea. It was windy and just COLD. Lauryn loves creating new looks with her scarves.
Here we are in Piazza St. Marco (piazza is a plaza or Square) In this particular area a guy had a camera stand set up with opportunities to feed the pigeons and he'd take the picture. yada yada. Gross and disgusting huh? Who wants a disease filled pigeon on you??? :-) Some HOT man with 4 beautiful kids walked up to me and asked if he could take my picture. Here I am!
The grand canal. It was fun to watch the gondola's cruise by.
Little canals and fun houses lined them. We loved looking at the architecture everywhere.
This was our ride back to the train station. It was cheaper to all ride back in this than to take the big boat taxi. For those that don't know, Venice is a car free city. All the transporting is done by the water taxi's or gondola's. It's not the cheapest transportation but it does the job. Speaking of not being cheap...we spent about 30 DOLLARS to use the public toilets today. Crazy huh? Each person was in euro 1.50 which isn't cheap. And, upon asking a few restaurants/hotels if we could let a child about ready to wet their pants use their toilet we were kindly told NO! In all, we had a great day in Venice. Tomorrow we drive into Venice to park at the cruise terminal. We'll board the ship around 1pm. We won't be back online until after the cruise, I refuse to pay for internet onboard.
6 comments:
Wow looks beautiful! I love the pigeon pic. Glad you guys are having a blast! Hope your socks are holding up!!! =D
Traci, I'm totally impressed that you are blogging while on vacation. You go girl! I wouldn't pay for the expensive extra's either, it is called frugal not cheap, I keep telling myself that. Venice is in the top 3 of my favorite European cities! Can't wait to hear about your excursions!
What a beautiful place! I want more pictures, please.
a-maz-ing
Too cool! This is a city I have ALWAYS been intrigued by. SOMEDAY! Great photos!
Can't wait to see more!
Post a Comment