Postcard Venice
Hello!!
Where should I start, Venice. We spent a couple of days in Venice. The first day, we got off the ferry, walked over a little bridge and on the other side was a building with huge spray painted words saying ”Kill the tourist”, for a second I pondered and agreed that if I was to live somewhere similar that was crawling with tourists I would feel the same way (oh except the killing part, not so keen on that!!). But, then I realised that comment was directed at me, and became a little disturbed by it. lol.
Venice was almost what I was expecting. It did feel like I was walking around a postcard, everything seemed familiar for some reason, the canals, the bridges, coloured buildings, all very pretty. Things I wasn’t expecting was the small winding alley ways, lined with shops filled with beautifully made masks and all sorts of stuff. Secondly, when we arrived to St Marks the entry was flooded, we had to walk along fold up tables, and lastly it was a little dirtier than I expected.
I looked up about the flooding and it’s actually reasonably common, with the city sinking and the water levels rising, you don’t realise how much of a threat the city is under until you can see it actually happening. I must admit I did love seeing the tiles on st marks floor through water, just made them look even more special…and by the time we finished looking around the flooding had gone enough for us to walk out.
One thing I regret, is that after seeing Ljubljana all lit up beautifully at night, transforming it completely. We never did see Venice at night, I have a sneaky suspicion that it would look just as stunning at night, however, I will have to wait for my next trip to find out!
Oh yes, here I am on the Rialto bridge (wow it was busy, we had to wait a while before getting to the middle to take this photo – but the good news is that I love the attention, and I always get attention when there are crowds – yipeeeeee)! See, it was a perfect day, with a great view:
I am actually now in Rome, however, I will come back and post on that tomorrow (I am making a conscious effort to get more photos, so lets see how that goes!).
