Venice 21 April 2009

The view as you come out of the train station in Venice

In front of the train station

These photos were taken from the water taxi along the Canale GrandPiazza San Marco - Ella is in the foreground

After Florence we drove to Venice. The drive to Venice was pleasant. More pretty scenery and death defyingly high roads and bridges and long tunnels. I don't have much to say about Venice though because Ella was sick and I was still on crutches so not much going on there. We had a half-hearted look around. About the only sightseeing we could muster was a ride on a crowded water taxi up the Grand Canal which was okay once we could sit down. Afer a short walk around the streets we headed back to the hotel for a bit of quiet time.

We've been staying at novotels because they usually have rooms for families of 4 which are hard to come by at a lot of places. Also to Samuel's delight, novotels provide a playstation and computers to use for free and something new I haven't seen before is a small library of novels which people can borrow to read (some titles in english too) and return to a novotel anywhere in Italy in the next three months. What a great idea.