Day 59 Venice
Saturday February 2nd.
Woke up this morning and it was raining.
We head out and realize for the first time how spoiled we are by travelling offseason – for the first time we encounter lines – just to get into the Academia Museum we had to wait nearly 20 minutes? In the guide book I read that a typical wait is more like 3 hours.
The Museum was spectacular - http://www.tickitaly.com/galleries/venice-academy.php
We went to the Peggy Guggenheim collection but decided to get lunch first - we were hungry. http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/ (Sadly we never made it back here)
Lunch a great lunch but expensive – I am getting used to things and as long as I do not do the Euro conversion to dollars it is almost possible to ignore the high prices.
After lunch I read there is going to be a Gondola Parade and we try to find it – we see hundreds of people lined up near the Rialto Bridge but never see anything resembling a parade.
On the walk back to the hotel we see many churches and go into as many as possible and we also stumble across and absolutely amazing classical guitarist playing in the street. We buy a couple of his CD's – so incredibly strange stumbling across a world class musician playing under a bridge to stay out of the rain.
Allysha also picks up a gold cape to go with her mask.
There is so much to see and the city is absolutely fascinating. It is so very difficult to find your way around – once you enter the side streets because of the height of the surrounding buildings I lose all sense of direction.
Allysha and Mom returned to the supermarket and again we cook dinner at the apartment.
