Venice- City of Love

There I was sitting in the Euro Star going to my next destination 2 and 1/2 hours away from Florence - Venice. Was traveling with mixed feelings - Excited since it is supposed to be a very romantic city and sad that this was our last destination for this splendid 9 days vacation.

So we finally checked into our hotel and the room had amazing decor; the best I have stayed in till date... every fixture had beautiful carvings and the whole room's colour combination was rustic red... After settling in we decided to venture out... Went to Piazza La Roma (the port) by bus and then took the water bus. It's amazing to see how they live their entire life in water. Travelling in water buses or water taxis, their mails and couriers coming in water boats. It's really splendid...

Some people say Venice has become very dirty and the water stinks... I never found anything like that even though I was there in their peak season, when supposedly it should be more dirty..
The place is beautiful... we saw the beautiful architecture of the place and shopped a little......ate a little.....

When the time was around sunset, we decided to take the gondola.. Now picture this....

We are going in the gondola... beautiful weather.. sun is about to set.. the guy rowing the boat is singing a lovely, probably a romantic Italian love song and....
Aananya decides to do potty :)
Since it was an hour's ride we seeked permission from the gondola guy to clean her in the gondola while he sang...
So here we were in the most romantic place, in the most romantic gondola... cleaning potty... :) Well that's life with kids ;) But no regrets whatsoever..
How many people can claim that they have cleaned their baby in a gondola in Venice?? And how many babies can claim that either???? :)

The next day we headed to all the small Islands near by, saw the glass factory at Murano and the exhibition... Liked a glass set.. cost of "each" glass was 28,000rs. put it right back from where I picked it, admired it and moved on ;)

I am so glad that I made the decision to go to Italy and have come back with beautiful memories that will stay on with me forever......

While on our flight back.. watched movies with a vengeance.. Saw Hanna Montana, Hangover and Luck by chance (back to back)... and then was home again...
However the next day was online again, busy preparing for my next holiday ;) We will just have to wait and see how that turns out ;)