Venice

Breakfast in our hotel garden. The best croissants and coffee of the trip. We went for a long meandering walk enjoying the quiet of Venice before 9 am. We met Nicola, our art teacher, at his studio. He walked us to a quieter canal and we started. He controlled his frustration with my drawing well 🙂 JDs drawing is far superior to mine-Nichola kept saying, think like an architect. Hmm. Not a skill set I have. What was supposed to be an hour art lesson ended up being two hours and we still didn’t finish. But we learned a lot of techniques and had a delightful time with him. More walking, exploring churches and finding delightful vignettes everywhere. Venice is working its magic. We walked to an area we’ve never been and had lunch on the ocean south of Academia-the biggest calzone JD has ever had with homemade salami and mozzarella and I had an enormous salad. As much as JD loves Italy, he’s missing beer from home. But he keeps trying:) We climbed to the top of Santa Maria de la Salute and enjoyed the view. Back to our hotel for a bit to relax, then back to the Rialto Bridge, and generally getting lost in Venice, following pretty alleys. We met a couple on the vaporetto from the airport yesterday from South Africa. We ran into them at 7 pm today in a piazza, then again when we made it to San Marco square 2 hours later! There are so many people here it seems meant to be. Thankfully the water has receded!Baca lagi