Today we traveled from Assisi to Venice stopping at several churches along the way. As we travel, we have seen fields of rolled wheat, tons of feed corn and acres of tobacco plants. When we got to Venice, we boarded a water taxi for our trip down the Grand Canal to St. Marc's Square. When we got there, we all ordered a spritzer drink that is a tradition here made with proseco wine in an orange drink. It was very refreshing.
We decided not to go on the gondola ride with the rest of the group. Since there was a short line to go into St. Marc's, we stood in line only to be told with about 20 people to go that the church was closing. Then I took Nancy on an Amazing Race adventure in trying to find a shoe shop that was given to us by Rebecca who was our wine tasting tour guide. There are tons of twists and turns going through the streets of Venice. We finally made it to the square we were looking for only to realize we needed to turn back around to our starting point as we had to go back and meet up with our group. Then I tried to use the ATM machine and it just kept spitting my card out. So far our day was not going to well.
We then took another water taxi over to the Lido Island across from St. Marc's Square which is where we are staying for the next couple of days. It has a little more of a relaxing pace here, not as crowded and a beach is right down the street. The Hotel Biasutti is an older hotel taken over by the Best Western. First we did not know how to turn on the air conditioning. Then Nancy went to take a shower in a bath tub with no curtain only to have it spray over the entire bathroom with water everywhere. Then there was a beeping sound every five minutes. After much searching, we finally figured out that it was Nancy's phone battery needed to be charged. All in all it was sort of a comedy of errors kind of day.
Went to a great restaurent called Two Crazy Guys. Started out with a salad, followed by lasagna, then chicken, rosemary potatoes and carrots ending with tiramasu. This was an included dinner and was tasty and over filling as usual with all of our Italian dinners.
We decided not to go on the gondola ride with the rest of the group. Since there was a short line to go into St. Marc's, we stood in line only to be told with about 20 people to go that the church was closing. Then I took Nancy on an Amazing Race adventure in trying to find a shoe shop that was given to us by Rebecca who was our wine tasting tour guide. There are tons of twists and turns going through the streets of Venice. We finally made it to the square we were looking for only to realize we needed to turn back around to our starting point as we had to go back and meet up with our group. Then I tried to use the ATM machine and it just kept spitting my card out. So far our day was not going to well.
We then took another water taxi over to the Lido Island across from St. Marc's Square which is where we are staying for the next couple of days. It has a little more of a relaxing pace here, not as crowded and a beach is right down the street. The Hotel Biasutti is an older hotel taken over by the Best Western. First we did not know how to turn on the air conditioning. Then Nancy went to take a shower in a bath tub with no curtain only to have it spray over the entire bathroom with water everywhere. Then there was a beeping sound every five minutes. After much searching, we finally figured out that it was Nancy's phone battery needed to be charged. All in all it was sort of a comedy of errors kind of day.
Went to a great restaurent called Two Crazy Guys. Started out with a salad, followed by lasagna, then chicken, rosemary potatoes and carrots ending with tiramasu. This was an included dinner and was tasty and over filling as usual with all of our Italian dinners.
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