After a early morning departure from Amsterdam, and a short flight on KLM, we motored in on a water taxi from the airport to the visually stunning city on the canals. Just entering the city on the Grand Canal is a captivating visual experience, and as you will hear from your blogger in video below, rendering one speechless, well not really! Also check out the video on the San Marco square, where people gather to enjoy a refreshing, and Euro draining beverage, and festive musicians.
Since this seems to be a uniquely beautiful city, I think most of the world’s traveling population is here. There are not really streets but tiny passageways that remind one that in this city heyday and a major center of commerce, you better have your bodyguards, or be well armed. Today you merely have to watch out for pick pockets.
You stream like migrating salmon to your desired destination, through the maze. Nevertheless water taxi’s or water buses are really the only way to get around and then look for the cheese in the maze. We did a tour of St. Mark the apostles church also in San Marco Square. Right next door is the Doge’s palace, which we see tomorrow. The large cruise liner in the picture was one of two, where streams of people were massing in the square to return to the ship, which adds to the sense of chaos of aimlessly wandering, picture snapping hoards, invading Venice like no army in the Doge’s day could ever hope to emulate.
Our very efficient guide pictured here took a page from her mentor Rick Steves to find us a very fine restaurant, in a little out of the way charming restaurant that only has maybe 20 seats. We dined late, very typical for us, and truly enjoyed the meal. The name escapes your ever faithful, if sleepless narrator but the bill will remind me it was good and expansive!
Dear followers there may be some duplicate pictures in this post but when you are photographing the beautiful people, repetition is allowed, ala Dolce Vita. Va bene and chao.
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