Venice

We watched the sun set during our flight from Vienna, Austria to Venice, Italy on the evening on Sunday, April 1. It was beautiful!

We made reservations to stay at Camping Rialto. (In Spanish, the English verb “camping” is used as the Spanish noun, meaning “campsite.”) We were slightly surprised to see that we were actually going to be camping, literally.

 

Our tour guide on Monday, April 2 was a free map of Venice, given to us by the Camping, with suggestions for what to see along several different walking-tour routes. I really enjoyed looking around and following the map—it felt like a scavenger hunt!

Annie at the Punta Della Dogana a la Salute

Basilica of the Salute

Peggy Guggenheim Museum

Ponte Academia

Plaza de San Marco

Basilica de San Marco

Ducale Palace

Bridge of Sighs/Ponte dei Sospiri

Ponte Rialto

 Venice is quite the precious city. Eating ice cream on the dock reminded me of being in Downtown Annapolis!

Needless to say, the ice cream was delicious. It was real, Italian gelato. I tried a different flavor every day ;)

Annie and I ended up having an every-other-day routine, where every other day we would tour the city, and every other day we would travel to the next destination. Tuesday, April 3 was the day we traveled to Florence, Italy.