Well, it's safe to say that the best way to spend the third anniversary with your loved one is to spend a few days in the city of Venice. Let me (Char) tell you about the city of Venice. The first day we arrived we had a wonderful supper in a quaint piazza in the cool of the evening and during the course of the meal were serenaded by an Italian man with a guitar. It was all very Italian. Then yesterday on our Anniversay we took a boat bus to the small island of Burano, which was idylic to say the least. And then headed to the small island of Murano, and purchased some famous glass, which is very beautiful. And since we had a bit of time before supper we thought to ourselves, "hey, let's take our free gondola ride." How is that possible you may be wondering. Well, a few weeks ago we were checking about something on the Eurail website and noticed that as a thank you to their customers they were giving free gondola rides, and it just happened to be for the time we were in Venice. So, we hopped onto a gondola (with a few other people) and enjoyed a quiet view of some of the smaller canals. It's nice to have unexpected but welcome surprises. We enjoyed supper at a local restaurant, and Brad had the best steak of his life, and walked back to our hotel in the rain. Fortunately we didn't wander too far from the hotel and it only took a few minutes.
Then to top up our visit to Venice, we enjoyed a lot of contemporary art in the Venice Biennalle, a huge contemporary art show that takes place every few years, and has over 83 artist and tons of world pavillions, of which we saw only a few. My favorite work of art was an installation of pigeons. The artist had stuffed hundreds of pigeons and placed them where normal pigeons would be found. So, every time you looked into the rafters you would see pigeons and get annoyed at their presence, only to realise that they weren't real. I thought it was clever.
My (Brad) top picks included the pigeons as well, plus one called "Void". It was a large wooden sculpture of burnt wood, with a hole in the middle. It was a huge piece, put in the middle of a tiny room, which made it very hard to get around the sculpture and put the 'void' in the middle of our attention and you couldn't escape it. Very interesting and thought provoking.
Future plans? Tomorrow we are going to the city of Trieste, which is east of Venice, not far from the Slovenian border. Why go to Trieste? To see a big, huge cave. We had a couple days to kill before our ferry to Greece, and the cave won out. So, hopefully it'll be good and we'll have a good time there.
Our stay in Venice has been absolutely amazing. It's definitely a highlight of the trip.
On to another city!
Ciao,
Char and Brad.
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