Canalos inno Venice-o

Hi-o all-o


One of our new friends from Como (hi Cath) introduced us to her version of Italiano, which Mama and I picked upp much to the annoyance of my daddyo. We left Casa Pupa and Como, unfortunately, but it wasn't all sad an d bad because we were meeting up wiith Karen and Norm and Cath in Venezio - all of us had made sepparate arrangements but were going to the Canal City after Como.
The trainn took us to the main rail station, from which we caught a water taxi to our hotel. The water taxi was very expensive but as newcomers to Venice the best way to get to our hotel. It was a large motor boat and delivered us straight to our front door - after a bit of "canal rage" with a gondola or two! The gondolas and taxis and other boats (some are doing their deliveries of stuff like the post and water and food) all shaare the canals, and some are very narrow so there's not much space for passing!
After checking into our really cool hotel we wandered around and discovered lots of bridges and canals and short paved streets. We found the famous Rialto Bridge and St Mark's Square but it was gettinng darrk and hazy so we had dinner and went back to our hotel. More prosciutto pizza for me! I haven't found a lot of milkshakes but I'm becoming an expert in margherita and prosciutto pizzas!
Next day we had a long visit at the Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. It has hundreds of very old paintinngs, most of them about Jesus, Mary, the saints and other things related to Christianity. Mama said she thought there couldn't be another Bellini anywhere, as there were so many. Also that Veronese had a strange idea of what colour skin and hair would have been right in that area of the world!
That night we met up with Karen, Norm and Cath, and after a reeally fun and cool ride around Venice on a gondola, K,C and Mama went off together and then we met up again and we all had dinner. Moree pizza - and the last time Norm could count on eating my leftovers. Very sad to leave them, but we'ree planning on meeting up at Christmas with Annie and Lee too.
Next morning we took a ferry back to the rail station, along with all the people who use the ferry as their way of getting to work every day.


MILKSHAKES
Not big on milkshakes in Venice, but discovered really good hot chocolate that's more like melted pudding than a milk drink!