For our morning we caught the vaporetto down to the end of the canal to Salute, and started our walk from there. We meandered through the laneways back towards Academia – past the Peggy Gugenheim museum, but it wasn’t open 🙁 .
Crossed the canal at the Academia bridge and slowly wandered our way back towards the Rialto bridge area, only did a loop once when we got to far into residential back lanes.
Back over the bridge to home area and grabbed some pizza slices to take back for lunch.
Nerida and I then headed back for an afternoon walk leaving Dana behind as she was in need of a rest. First goal was to find a birthday present for BJ and mission accomplished nice and quick. We then wandered – and yes there is a lot of just walking in Venice, but its a pleasant strolling pace – till we hit the Lagoon near San Marco. We hoped onto the water bus back up the canal, getting off at San Toma, nearish home.
A short walk into the Campo and we found the most amazing mask shop here. Many (most) of the shops seem to sell the same mass produced masks, but there are a few that still have hand made ones – and these were some of the best we have seen. We are still trying to work out how we can get home – but will return with Dana on Wednesday to look at them.
We then headed towards Rialto once more and walked till we found familiar shops/streets and knew we were near home. Stopped for some pasteries for afternoon tea, as well as getting some cool watermelon and retuned home.
After some food we had a couple of games of Fusbal and Nerida and Dana managed to beat me. We then spent a couple of hours relaxing as we had an evening walking tour and gondola ride booked. Back onto the vaporetto and down to Academia for the starting point for 6:30 – walking through an area we hadn’t (mostly) done yet. Then onto a Gondola at 8pm for about a 35 minute ride – across the grand canal, then through some of the small canals.
Back home at 9pm and finally off to dinner – we are starting to go native with our eating hours. Went round to place called The Jazz Club just around the back of our building that was recommended by Rosa our host. The pizza were really good as was the wine.
We say our first rat of Venice go scurrying past – which we thought was amusing, but an American family at another table seemed a bit more concerned.
While we were easting a local came past walking for dog and cat – and yes the cat was happily walking along with her and dog , neither on leads. Though the cat wasn’t happy with another dog that was already at the resturant that from it’s barking didn’t like cats.
A few minutes later she returned from her walk and settled into the cafe with the group with the dog and her dog came and befriended us – given we’d dropped a bit of pizza and Nerida fed it the ham 😉 .
Wednesday will be another day of just exploring – before we leave Thursday for Florence and given the current weather pattern getting seriusly baked with temperatures expected in the high 30’s for the days we are there.
