Castelrotto-Soave-Venice

The final day of the car! It’s always a gamble when you rent a car and brazenly decline coverage because you think your credit card will cover it.🤨 Celebrated a safe return! Enjoyed a beautiful drive past countless castles, ruins, beautiful churches and hill towns. Pulled into Soave where they were having a grape festival! Beautiful town and some wonderful interactions with locals. If we were going to be there tomorrow we’d have paid the 5 euro for all you can drink from the Fontana del Vino:) We had a small glass of Soave, a crisp white wine, and a wine risotto that was unreal for lunch.
Chose public transport from the Venice airport to Venice ($52 for two, round trip, as opposed to $200 for two one way on a wooden speed boat.) it took an hour and a half with a boat change due to mechanical issues, but still felt like the right call! Walked 15 minutes to our very nice hotel where they took one look at our backpacks and said, ‘You look like you’ve just come down from the mountains’. As I expected, this is where the clothes and shoes I have don’t quite match the surroundings. But I’m powering through with my Birkenstocks! Enjoyed a drink in our garden courtyard before dinner. Had an amazing meal recommended by our hotel-swordfish tagliatelle for JD, eggplant ravioli for me…walked back to our hotel and discovered that Venice is so much busier than we’ve ever seen it and much of it is under water. It’ll be interesting to see more tomorrow.Read more