Leaving Venice

We are about to leave Venice for Vienna on our overnight train, but we decided to first stop in for a quick post before we go. Today we slept in at our nice hotel near St. Marks Square and then got a free water taxi (very expensive) ride to Murano, an island off of Venice. The water taxi was free because it is run by the glass blower company and they try to pressure you into buying expensive glass after you watch a demonstration of glass blowing (kind of like a time share thing). The glass blowing was really cool. The master glass blower guy blew a bubble with it as thin as plastic cellophane. He also made a dolphin and a vase.



We ate lunch on Murano and then took the Vaparetto (sp) to the island of Burano, which is an old fishing village. We looked around for a while and then made our way over to the (almost) deserted island of Torcello (deserted because of Malaria a long time ago). Although these island adventures were fun, it took us almost 2 hours to get back to the main area of Venice, YIKES!

Then we had a quick dinner of pizza, and are about go feed the birds and pick up our stuff before heading off to the train.

Bests of Venice:
1. Feeding the pigeons in St Marks - we spent 2 euros last night on popcorn and had birds flying all over us. Today Carrie got a box of corn at the store for 50 cents and we are going to go use that now.
2. Getting lost in the old streets and canals - saw lots of nice scenery, old houses, canals, and a Gypsy band, and also stumbled upon free internet and 1.50 euro pizza slices.
3. Thats all!

Worsts of Venice:
1. Long vaporetto rides
2. Crowds
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5. Expensive
6. Not enough public toilets
7. Crowds

Thats all - more from Vienna (dont forget to call us at our hotel if desired - the number is in a previous post. Good luck figuring out how to call that weird number!).