Since we have our priorities right, the first thing we do when we get from the shuttle boat is buy gelato. Yummy, there is something about Italian ice cream that makes it so much better than any other ice cream! Next thing is look for the vaporetto to Burano. I am in love with embroidered sheets and table cloths etc, so a must for me is to visit Burano. The boat ride to Burano is long and pleasant. I almost fell asleep sitting outside in the sun, being rocked by the boat, lol!
Once in Burano, we walk through the little streets, admire the coloured houses and the beautiful embroidered items. And yes, I can’t help it, I have to buy some sheets. Very beautiful old-fashioned hand-embroidered sheets and pillowcases. I love them! What we love less is that it turns out my mom’s credit card doesn’t work. She got a new one days before we left, had the pincode changed but didn’t try it out. So, now we are in Venice with this fancy-schmancy platinum MasterCard that doesn’t work. Good thing there is something called cash, and that I have a very basic normal not so fancy-schmancy regular Visa card. Of which I forgot to temporarily increase the limit of course. After some phone calls to dear old dad who on his turn called the bank and BCC, we decide that we’ll use my CC each time they require a pin, and use my mom’s when they don’t require a pin code but just a signature, like on the ship. For all the rest we’ll use cash and worst case we’ll get more cash out of ATMs with our Maestro card (how much does my mom intend to spend anyway??).
When we’re done shopping, we take the vaporetto again. Not back to where we came from (San Marco) but we continue the itinerary and end up on the other side than San Marco of the main island of Venice, which allowed/ forced us to walk through the city.
I knew Venice from movies and books and postcards, it always looked very beautiful and romantic and… well, a lot of things. In my opinion, in real life, it doesn’t look all that nice. Almost every house/ palazzo looks very moldy, it’s all dirty, a lot looks abandoned (I don’t think it was but it looked that way). The water smells not so nice. Yes, I was rather disappointed in Venice. It looks nice when you see it from far away, but in my opinion it looks far from nice when you look from close by.
After finding our way through small streets, the Rialto Bridge, the Grand Canal, and so much more, we arrive at the very famous Piazza San Marco. Where there are no doves. Which makes me glad because I hate doves but also disappointed because according to the movies, there are always gazillions of doves! Lol.
By that time, we are tired and starving, so we walk back to the shuttle to the hotel, where we get our room keys, find our beautiful room and after dropping the luggage off, we have dinner at a small pizzeria near the hotel. Because we were too tired to go all the way back to the center and walk all around to find a decent (read: non-tourist trap) restaurant. After the pizza, which was good, we end the day in the most wonderful bed and it doesn’t take long before I ZZZZZzzzzz….
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