St. Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco)
The Basilica of San Marco overlooks one of the most beautiful squares in the world, a real marble salon, the city center for centuries. Next to both the Basilica and…
St. Mark’s Basilica
This is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture. It lies at the eastern end of the Piazza San Marco,…
Doge’s Palace
One of Europe’s most beautiful and easily recognizable buildings, the Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale) was not only the center of government during the Venetian Republic but also the residence of…
Teatro La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice (“The Phoenix”) is an opera house and is one of “the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre”, as well as in the…
Buongiorno Venice!
Our first full day in Venice! We slept hard last night as we recovered from jetlag and travelling. Woke up, got ready, took the lift downstairs and were about to…
We’ve Arrived
We arrived at Santa Lucia station last night after quite a journey. It was not as bad as expected but it was longer than we wanted it to be. And…
Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Kayaks, and Canoes!
Well as you saw in the last post, we got on in 40A and 40B. Two seats together by themselves and let me just that United did a really, really…
Where In The World
We’ve been thinking about travelling somewhere over the holiday season but we agreed it had to be standby and not using miles. So I’ve been watching flights all over the…
2021 Turkey, November 11-29, 2021
This was some trip to pull off. An incredible amount of planning went into this so that we could squeeze as much into our time as possible. The trouble with…