Finally. The recap of our Italy holiday is coming to an end. I feel like these posts summarizing our trip have been dragging on forever. Thankfully, this is the last one as Venice was our last stop on our eight days spent in Italy.
After leaving Tuscany, all of us were pretty worn out and ready to get home. Geoff was coming down with the flu and we were running out of clean clothes between all the spaghetti dinners and throw-ups that occurred. Plus, in case you get any funny ideas otherwise, it's simply exhausting traveling with small kids. This Italy trip was just that. A trip. Definitely not a vacation. You know, that thing where you actually relax. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if we've actually had one of those vacation things since Olivia was born. :) Anyhoo, I've digressed. If it hadn't already been planned, we probably would have skipped Venice at that point and gone straight back to London. I'm so glad we were forced to go on though because Venice tied with Cinque Terre as my favorite part of our trip. I loved Venice! It's such a unique and beautiful city. It's filled with brightly colored buildings hovering over all the interconnected canals and gondolas meandering along. Unfortunately, we missed out on George Clooney's big wedding ordeal in Venice by a couple weeks. But I easily can see how Venice can be very romantic. Not that Geoff and I got to experience any of that during our brief stay there.
View from breakfast of the Grand Canal
Campanile di San Marco
After a wait in line, we took an elevator to the top of the famous Campanile di San Marco. With picture perfect blue skies, the views from the top overlooking Venice, the Grand Canal and Piazza were gorgeous.
Piazza San Marco down below
When walking around the town, there are little bridges like the one below everywhere to get you from one side of the canal to the other. However, they are all unique from each other in their design and size.
There are no cars in Venice because there simply aren't any roads. Only canals for boats and alleyways/ pedestrian streets for walking. It was funny to see delivery boats parked out in front of various hotels, shops and restaurants dropping off supplies, but that's how it works there.
We wouldn't be tourists in Venice without taking an overpriced gondola ride
Love this picture and these girls. Anytime we travel, I always shake my head in disbelief that we've been able to take them to as many places as we have and give them these experiences. I know they probably won't remember much (hopefully Olivia will some), but we'll always have the photos to show them of their world travels and young adventures.
Standing on the famous Rialto Bridge (built in 1591) overlooking the Grand Canal
Waiting for the water taxi to begin our trip back to London
Ciao, Italy! Thanks for the memories!
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