Visiting Venice

A few more photos to entertain you - from Venice this time - another wonderful city - it's up there amongst my favourites.

Viewing Venice from the boat crossing the lagoon

Posing on one of the many bridges

Sharon in St Marks Square

The belltower in St Marks square

St Mark's Basilica

Out for dinner - gee it was so hot - you can see the glow on my face!!

Vincenzo - our tour director - a real character - doing a few poses here

Waiting for the boat to go back to our hotel - Vincenzo and Guiseppe who was the director on the tour running parallel with ours.

Another view across the lagoon

A little canal

We had a gondola ride - with the crankiest gondolier - couldn't get him to crack a smile

Views from the gondola

Gliding up a little back canal

And another one

Lunchtime - ready for a nice cold beer

Sailing across to Burano Island

This was the home of Casanova

Burano Island - the lacemakers island

Another street view - I bought a gorgeous black lace tiered skirt in this shop

Vincenzo demonstrating the tradition of dunking this special sweet biscuit into a glass of champagne

Dunk dunk

And I got to taste it - delish!

But he got to drink the champagne!

Dressed ready for dinner - wearing my new black skirt and a scarf I bought in Florence

Have had an up and down week with eating and drinking - we had visitors from Auckland here for the weekend - but they left this morning - so no excuses.  I should - correct that - WILL have good things to tell you next week.  Hope your week is good too.

Love Z xx