We arrived in Venice on Tuesday morning, a little tired but feeling better than on previous trips to this side of the pond. Dad and I are still unsure of the logic behind building a city in the middle of a lagoon, but that's not important.
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| Dad and I on the motoscafi ride into the city. |
Our first impressions of the city were from the motoscafi, water taxi, ride to our hotel. We were surprised to discover that for every truck we are used to seeing on the streets in the U.S. there is a boat. On our way to the hotel we passed a variety of boats including a UPS boat and a Staples delivery boat.
After arriving at and checking in to our wonderful hotel in the the San Croce area of Venice, we decided to venture out for lunch. We ate in a great restaurant, then stopped for our first gelato. By the time we had finished our gelato, we were exhausted so we returned to the hotel for a quick nap.
Feeling refreshed we took our first ride on the Vaporetto, the Venetian
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| The View From Our Dinner Table |
equivalent to to cable cars in San Francisco, to the famous Rialto Bridge. The architecture of the bridge was interesting, but overall the area was packed with tourists, something we have tried very hard to avoid, so we quickly moved into a less crowded part of the city for dinner. At this point it shouldn't come as a surprise, but dad picked a great restaurant for dinner (Trattoria al Ponte), with an amazing, iconic, Venetian view. Mom had a wonderful ravioli in butter and sage, I had the first of many lasagnas and dad tried the famous Venetian calves liver. All were wonderful. We were somehow unable to find any gelato on our way back to the hotel, but we called it a night anyways, agreeing to make up for the missed gelato later on.
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