Dave and Brian's Excellent Adventures

Feb 26th - a bit more info from Rosemary ref first day in Venice

Ref our first day in Venice I forgot something else important we did!! After a 4 hour bus ride from Florence to Venice and then in amongst all the other things we did on Thursday, we also went on the gondola ride I told you we were going to do!! There were 6 of us plus the "driver" in one gondola - it was a bit tippy - and we were told to NOT MOVE. I tried to put my head back just a bit to take a photo and even that was too much so I didn't move after that. One of the gondolas in our group had just 4 people from the tour in it, the "driver", a person playing an accordian and a singer. All of our gondolas got around that one and he serenaded us. It was beautiful. Then we went in a line down a small canal and he'd sing from time to time.

The water there is a murky green color and there is some trash floating in the water and there is a bit of an unpleasant smell from time to time but with all the other wonderful things, sights and sounds of Venice, you forget about that. It does have tides and sometimes the water comes up into the streets...knee or higher deep. They have a siren they blare if that is going to happen and then shops put out something in front of them to protect them and boards on risers are put out some places out so people can walk above the high water. We saw some of the boards in a church. I'm glad the water didn't rise up while we were there. We saw holes in the streets for drainage. I'm tuckered and going to sign off. Ciao, ciao, Love, Mom/Rosemary

posted by DaveandBrian @ 2:04 PM