Venice

Although it seems like we are running out of time we made a stop in Venice. We actually stayed in a hotel for a couple of nights. This was a rare thing for us. We took the train in from Quatro’d ltino to the station to catch the water bus to bring us through the Grand Canal. Venice was one of those places that even seeing it in a book or in Video just doesn’t capture how different a place this really is. It is hard to imagine the how and why of building this city on the water. Fascinating…We made our way to San Marcos square and spent the day walking around. We may end up naming the Italy part of this trip “Operation Gelati”. It was also good to arrive in the day and leave after dark to see the city by the lights. After eating in Venice we boarded the train to head back. We boarded on platform 2 where we figured out train would leave in about 15 minutes. The train didn’t move for 2 hours. Finally everything started to move, after about 20 minutes it was one of those feelings that just didn’t seem right. Sure enough we had got us on the wrong train! We ended up catching the last train back to a larger station at just before midnight. It must have been a site to see the 9 of us “the only ones there” standing at that platform singing and eating pistachios.