Venice is a city in the sea, a maze of car free cobbled streets bridging a network of canals. I met my friends Gemma and Nikki here and together we wandered through it's narrow lane ways between the leaning walls of city buildings, hundreds of years old and sliding into the sea. Most alarming is the perilous angle at which some church towers tilt. The city must be a structural engineers nightmare.
It is so easy to become lost in it's structureless spaghetti bowl of a street network. It's probably easier to navigate through the canals, where boats instead of trucks deliver groceries and tourists are paddled on gondoliers. We stuck to the streets, not wanting to fork out €80+ for the privilege. The ferry across to The Lido cost enough, but the swim was well worth it.
The Mediterranean sea offered cool respite from the sweltering heat. It's hot in Italy in the middle of summer. It was the first sight of a coastline since Goa, several months ago.
When in Italy in summer, gelato is everywhere. With many delicious flavours from rock melon to Tiramasu and being cheap in relation to Australia, it is an irresistible afternoon snack. I'm sure I will work my way through many flavours from the myriad to chose from.
From Venice, the city of Verona is only an hour away. Also a very pretty town, it is most famous as the setting for Romeo and Juliet. People come to take their picture on "Juliet's Balcony," forgetting she was a fictitious character who never lived there. Apparently her tomb is somewhere else as well, for mourners of the girl who never lived. More interesting is the ancient Roman arena in the centre of town and the views from the hilltop castle overlooking Verona.
More Photos from my travels in Europe can now be found here. Enjoy
It is so easy to become lost in it's structureless spaghetti bowl of a street network. It's probably easier to navigate through the canals, where boats instead of trucks deliver groceries and tourists are paddled on gondoliers. We stuck to the streets, not wanting to fork out €80+ for the privilege. The ferry across to The Lido cost enough, but the swim was well worth it.
The Mediterranean sea offered cool respite from the sweltering heat. It's hot in Italy in the middle of summer. It was the first sight of a coastline since Goa, several months ago.
When in Italy in summer, gelato is everywhere. With many delicious flavours from rock melon to Tiramasu and being cheap in relation to Australia, it is an irresistible afternoon snack. I'm sure I will work my way through many flavours from the myriad to chose from.
From Venice, the city of Verona is only an hour away. Also a very pretty town, it is most famous as the setting for Romeo and Juliet. People come to take their picture on "Juliet's Balcony," forgetting she was a fictitious character who never lived there. Apparently her tomb is somewhere else as well, for mourners of the girl who never lived. More interesting is the ancient Roman arena in the centre of town and the views from the hilltop castle overlooking Verona.
More Photos from my travels in Europe can now be found here. Enjoy
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