Venice – endless water

Venice was amazing for several reasons. First of all it was beautiful – the weather was beautiful, the water was beautiful, and so were the people. It was also delicious. We bought gelato for a euro on the street and sat down for full Italian meals complete with appetizers, a pasta course, main dish, amazing wine finished off with an espresso and tiramisu for dessert.





We also had the privilege of going to Venice the same weekend that our castle director, Dulcia was in town. Dulcia is basically a celebrity to the castle dwellers. She is just one of those people you look up to automatically, so when she asked if we would like to meet up in Venice we obviously said yes. She invited us to a classical music concert she organized which was phenomenal. At the end of the concert a flutist also preformed, and as it turns out he is on of the most famous flutists in the Netherlands.

Given that Venice is made up mostly of water, we did a lot of walking. In fact I think we spend more time walking around and seeing the city than we did riding on boats.






We did take a few trips to the islands. Murano is the island that all of the artists live and work on. We got to see a demonstration of glass blowing and then walked all around to the glass shops before hoping on a boat back to Venice.





We traveled to Lido twice. Lido is a beautiful beach island not far from the main island of Venice.






Lido was also home to the best gelato we found. It was a euro per scoop and we certainly took advantage of the good price and tried many of the delicious flavors.