Venice

Venice was AMAZING!!! So incredible. It's like what you have imagined (which is quite surreal) - lots of canals and boats and gondalas and ancient palaces rising out of the water. We also had the most amazing hotel room - our windows opened right out onto the Grand Canal and had marble floors and sumptuous decor (we think it may have been recently redecorated) so felt very special. All the buildings are painted in hues of pink and orange and cream and many have an eastern influence in their design. We queued for about an hour to see S. Marco which was really worth it with the golden tesserae covering the roof WOW!! what a sight. We also went to the Island Murano to look at the Venetian glass. It was a really magical time together and felt like you had to keep blinking to check it was real...


The photo of Reuben is from our hotel room looking towards the Accademia Bridge.

Any Italian churches you go into insist on you covering your immoral shoulders if you're wearing a singlet top, hence the 1euro shawl you see in front of S. Marco...

The Bridge of Sighs