Bon Jurno from Venice! It is bellisimo. We both love the city. Where we are staying is lovely an old converted Palace and in one of the few remaining less-touristy areas. It is still fairly busy when you are out and about even here and on a Sunday. Well on the advice of our tour guide from Paris, Bruce, oh and you Lynn, we travelled by water bus to Burano Island. This one is famous for it's coloured buildings, the meaning dates back to medieval times and for it's lace making. We wandered this beutiful island for about 4hrs fascinated by the way italians were going about their normal lives while boatloads, and I do mean boatloads of tourists piled in and then piled out of the main touristy streets. We left that behind and found the fisherman, the mamas shaking tablecloths out windows and 2 weddings! To me this is what I thought Italy would be. With a few words, some gestures and friendly smiles we communicated with the people who make Burano their home. We had a local lunch of fried sea things, some that resembled bait Gerv, but tasted delicious, chips and a salad. Ralf had a gelato and I had a mint granita (slurpee). Girls we are so sorry that we keep missing you on skype and you too Steph, 8 hours time difference is really hard. Dad loved his fathers day messages Seb and Steph, and Steph you made him cry!!! Mum if you are reading this know that we are thinking of you and dad as I am sure he continues to make a good recovery. gerv is passing on any emails that you send to home through the blog to us (not sure if you can see that).
Tonmorrow we water bus it back to the airport and then pick up the car. We are a little worried about this as it is all very different but others have done it so I am sure we can. tonight after our siesta we are going to the rialto bridge and then on to St Marks Square again on Bruces recommendation as he said after dark the tourists go home and the locals come to sit, drink and listen to music, so we are going to do the same. Alex we bought a bottle of Limoncello on your recomdenation so we will enjoy that after we get back tonight. It will hopefully help us sleep as we are both missing our beds.
We were so tired last night and both a little homesick and you think that you won't be able to get up the next day and do it againn... and then you do and it is magnifico!!!
Much love to you all
Sandrino and Ralfonzo.
Ciao! Hope you are enjoying it in Venice! Certainly a place that I really like. I am just on my IPad at Careflight at the moment. It is a little slower to type so you won't get much of a message. Sorry that we missed you yesterday. We did try to keep the skype open for all afternoon.
ReplyDeleteWe loved the Island as well - it is very family oriented and the laneways and wonderful coloured buildings are just delightful.
Hope you have a fine old time in Florence. Tig is going to turn on Skype again after lunch to see if she can catch you guys at breakfast.
Lots of love
Alex
xxx
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are having a wonderful time, even if you are melting with the heat!! So glad you made it to Burano. It really is lovely with all the coloured buildings, lacework shops and glass bits! We had some fried seafoody bits for our lunch too and must agree with you they were delish!
Hope you enjoyed sitting with the locals drinking, relaxing and listening to music. It's a hard life, but someone has to do it!!!
Look forward to hearing about your Florence adventure. I'm sure the driving there will be a breeze.
Love you both lots
Lynn xoxo