Europe - The Gondolas in Venice!


Next destination, Venice! One of the most beautiful cities of our tour, Venice, Italy (if only it weren't so hot when we got there). We took a boat to get to the Island and we were welcomed by these picturesque view that are truly works of art!

A guide met us at St. Mark's Square where he introduced us to the place. Around the square we saw the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Campanile (bell tower), St. Mark's Clock in the Clock Tower and the Basilica. We had a tour inside St. Mark's Basilica and saw the wonderful mosaic designs made of gold, bronze and a great variety of stones.

Then we went in the Murano glass shop. We watch a glass blowing demonstration and off to look around at the exquisite pieces of work. My friend wasn't able to stop herself from buying 2 pieces of glass fish and boat for the display case in our office. It cost her more than 50,000.00 Pesos and an additional 5-7 kilograms of weight. =S

It's now time for the Gondola ride! We bargained for a full canal cruise at a cheaper price and the best we got is around 120 Euros for an hours cruise, there's 6 of us so around 20 Euros each. The cruise was fun! The boat man is very friendly and he tells us the names of the bridges and buildings as we are passing by. Some of the bridges and canals we passed through were Rialto bridge and the more popular The Bridge of Sighs and of course the grand canal.

We walk around for some more sight seeing and everybody meet up at St. Mark's Square. While waiting for everybody, we played around with the pigeons in the square and tried to feed them so that they will approach you and take pictures. ^^

And the finale, group picture at St. Mark's Square in front of the Basilica! =)

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