Venezia, Italia by the kids

On the 4th we took a train Venice. It was a long one, when we got there we went to our room, it was ish, after that we went out to take our 7th month anniversary picture (yay). We had a look around at Venice a bit. Then we went back to the hotel and slept.
On the 5th we went to the Doge’s palace, but before I cover that I’m going to tell you some fun facts about Venice. The first casino opened in Venice, it opened in 1638, and it was called Ca’Vendramin Calergi. There is a law in Venice that all gondolas have to be black, there is around 400 gondolas in Venice. You are not allowed to ride a bike or skate board or anything like that in Venice, boats and walking are the only way to move around. Lots of movies were filmed in Venice, here is a little list, 1. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 3. James Bond – Moonraker, 4. James Bond – Casino Royal, 5. Spider Man: Far from Home. When we went in we looked around there was so much in the Doge palace, there are lots of paintings, there were lots of councils and some courts to. there was one big main room that they had the main council, the room is the biggest room in Europe, it looked really cool. After that we went to a weaponry, it had lots of weapons, then we went on the bridge of sighs. It is called that way because that’s where prisoners walked when they went to the prison, it is closed all around so prisoners can’t jump out. We looked around the prison, it had lots of security. Then we looked at the Doges place again and then went to another museum. This museum had lots of statues, they had some different types of painting too, and it looked cool. After that we looked around at Venice again, I could live here, it is a really nice city. After that we went home and to slept.
On the 6th we went to the basilica, when we got there we went in the line waited a bit and then went in. When we got in it was really cool there were lots of gold painted stuff, it looked awesome, the roof had lots of gold and paintings, there were lots of people painted on the roof. It was really cool, the thing I liked the most was the giant chandelier in the middle of the basilica, there were like 100 candles on it. After that we went on a gondola ride. I was really excited about it, at the front of the gondolas are a symbol that has a curve at the top and six sticks that are poking out the front. When we found a gondola station we had a look at the price and guess how much it was, …… any one… (random viewer) “50 dollars”, (me) “no, oh yeah, the price is in euros, but its still not 50 euros”, (another random viewer) “75”, (me) “no”, (random viewer) 80, no, 90, no 100, 110, 120, 94385540, no. The actual price was 150 euros, which is like 267 dollars for like 40 minutes, expensive. When we got on it was really cool, it is expensive but it’s awesome, we saw a lot of Venice. The driver had been doing it for 30 years and really knew what he was doing. When we got off we went to a museum, we weren’t going to do the museum it was just the meeting point for a tour. In the tour we were going to go see the clock tower, it is pretty big and had a really big clock. When we went in the clock the tower leader explained that a while ago they used to have a time keeper that would live in the house with the family. They also had a guard and guess where they slept, right in the room just below the bell, the kids’ room was next to the mechanism the ran the clock, and it also made a loud noise every five minutes. We got to see a close up of the bell and it was big, then we went down and got out quick enough to see them ring. After the clock tower we went to look around Venice (yet again) and then we went home and slept.
On the 7th we took a bus/boat to Burano, Burano is famous for having really colourful houses and making lace. When we got there I instantly saw all the coloured houses, every single house was coloured in a different colour. We then went to look at a lace museum, it was cool there were some really small delicate pieces. After that we took the bus/boat to Murano, Murano is famous, wait no, change famous to world famous for glass, we went to another museum, but this one was about glass (and all the glass was from Murano). It had so many beautiful works, giant chandeliers, tiny pictures, amazing sculptures, it was amazing. and then it came to me, the glass that is protecting the glass, is it made in Murano too (hmm???). After that we went back to the hotel and slept.
On the 8th we went to another museum (HOW MANY CAN I TAKE!!!!) this was a perfume museum. When we got there we went in and we saw that they had found perfumes from Egypt, Greece and Rome. we got to smell lots of perfumes, one of them smelt like Madeleine, oh wait you won’t know what they are, they’re a French snack (it’s delicious). After that museum we went to… guess what… you got it correct, it’s another museum. It’s a natural history museum, when we got in we saw a fake model of a whale, it was cool. There was also lots of dinosaur bones and some were on display to touch, some were little and some were heavy. we saw lots of stuff about bones and humans from really long ago, and some animal skulls. After that we went back home and did some blog then we watched a movie. And then went to sleep.
Mum asked me to write a summary of Italy, and I will, Italy has been nice, the food was yum, the monuments were beautiful, the only thing bad is that it is really expensive, this is my advice if you are spending a while in Italy, “save for a while”. I will miss being able to see a monument every where I go, Italy has sent amazing stuff at us, some stuff I will never forget, bye bye Italy.
Andrew (10 years old)

Bonjour. On this adventure, we are going to Venice. Were we are going through a world of museums. Enjoy.
On the 4th we took a train to Venice. It was officially our seven months on the road. It is going so quickly. I am going to be happy when we get back and see our family and friends. I have enjoyed traveling so far. A little bit tired of museums but doing fine. On that day it was one month till my birthday. So, I will be nine on our eighth month.
There are four hundred and seventeen bridges in Venice and seventy-two are private. In 1608, the council of ten approved wearing masks only in carnivals. The people who broke the law were badly punished. Venice is sinking at the rate of 1-2 millimetres a year. Then we walked in town. Then I bought a pandora charm. Bought some chocolate and had pizza for dinner.
On the 5th we visited the Doge’s palace. It was massive. It had lots of detail on the outside and the inside. It had so many paintings but lots of statues as well. So much on the floor. It was amazing. So many different patterns. We saw so many different types of paintings. Then we had lunch. Then we went to the Correr museum. There were lots of statues at the beginning. Then there were boats. My favourite thing was a big boat that had big sails. Then we walked around. You see lots of rivers when you walk around Venice. So many bridges. I like Venice a lot, just realllllly expensive. Then we went back to our room to rest. Then we had dinner out.
On the 6th we visited the basilica. When we entered it, THERE WAS SO MUCH GOLD. The floor was on a big tilt and dad took a photo of Andrew standing in a dich where you could not see his feet. Then we went on a gondola. A gondola is a boat that is human powered. It has one person standing at the back who is paddling, and all the passengers sit at the front. They are all black. They have little seahorse statues on the side. They are long and weigh a lot. Then we visited the clock tower. There used to be a family living in there, but they don’t anymore. There are two statues at the top of the tower that are called moors. On mum’s birthday (which is on the 6th of January) three fake people would come out of the tower. They were being led by an angel. Then we walked around a bit afterwards. We had pizza for dinner.
On the 7th we took a bus\boat to Burano. Burano is famous for having so much colour. Every house has different colours. Then we went to a museum. It was a lace museum. I loved it. lace is like string. People make collars, cuffs, fake butterflies and pictures out of it. I was very interested in it that I decided I want aunty Bec to teach me how to sew. I just liked the artwork. I don’t know why but I do. It is so beautiful. Then we went to Murano. Murano is famous for its glass. So, we went to a glass museum. There were vases and stuff but the thing that impressed me the most was a huge garden made out of pure glass. There was coloured glass. Whitish glass. SO MUCH GLASS. I liked the glass museum, but it did not stand a chance against the lace museum. I love seeing what people can do with lace and things like that.
On the 8th we went to a perfume, costume and textile museum. It was cool but not my favourite. I liked the lace museum more. There were perfumes you could smell. There was one that smelt like madeleines. There was one that was vanilla, and it smelt good. They showed us some of the stuff they used to make perfume. Then we went to a national history museum. There were fossilized bones of dinosaurs and stuff like that. there was information about different animals that are now extinct. I got a little bored by the end. Then we went home and blogged.
Ok. Mum wants me to tell you what I liked about Italy. Here goes. I LIKED THE FOOD. I liked the museums and thingy thingy, but I loved the food. We saw too many museums for my liking. One of my favourite things was seeing the lace museum. Bye-bye.
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