We loved Venice! With a 24-hour vaporetti ticket (bus on the water) you can travel everywhere. The food was fabulous, the people watching interesting and the sights outstanding. St. Mark's cathedral is a treasure of Catholic artwork, including mosaic ceilings, bronze bigger-than-life horses atop the entry (the real ones are in the treasury), ancient carved glass challices and even the arm bone of St. George. Many of these relics have were taken from Constantinopel (sp), then Rome, then Paris, and back to Venice. It's amazing that they have survived these travel intact.
Our final night was spent listening to music in St. Mark's Square. Three orchestras compete with each other. We had ice cream sundaes and danced under the stars as the square filled up with water! It was high tide, and the water began entering the square from the flood control grates. By the time we left at 10:30 we had to wind our way via high and dry spots across the piazza to the water taxi.
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You two look very happy. I loved the cat picture farther down the screen. Looks like he was out on an all-night howl. =)
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