I awoke to a beautiful summer morning in Venice. Today we were going inside St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, and few other places we just had to see, plus we went on our very first gondola ride! Of course, we had to start off with a hearty breakfast at our hotel. Once we finished with the difficult task of trying everything, we walked the short distance to St. Mark's Basilica. We had about an hour before the basilica opened, so I put Mom in line and walked around to try … [Read more...]
Summer trip to Italy 2013 Day 7
Today is the day we were going to Venice! We were so excited to finally get to visit Venice and see a real gondolier in person. First, we had to actually get there from Florence. We had time to grab a little breakfast first, in our hotels beautiful breakfast room, before we needed to head to the train station. While we were waiting for the breakfast room to open, we started up a conversation with another lady that was waiting, as well. Once breakfast was ready to be served, we … [Read more...]