05-09 Venice Walking and Boating Exploring

Our Museum du Jour was the Ca'Rezzonico. It was a beautiful building with very nice 18th century furniture pieces in it.

A whole room of red velvet

What a great looking desk. I don't think I have room for it in my house though.

Someone went to a lot of trouble to create these picture frames in 3D on the ceiling and then to put frescoes in them. Thanks. They look lovely.

I think this was Karen's favorite area.

Of course, since it was ON the Grand Canal it had a grand view.

Afterwards we took a boat to St Marks Square and found another inexpensive place to buy lunch, found a place with some benches and had lunch with a great view of the water.

A walking tour by Rick Steves included a lot of areas we had already walked in the past 4 days so we did the part we hadn't seen which included some streets we hadn't been on yet.

Along the way we found the Gondola Break Room

The way I remember it Karen needed to rest so we went back to the room. I kept myself busy counting sheep that needed counting. Yes, there's always something that needs doing in Venice.

Later in the afternoon we walked over to Rialto Bridge and took more pictures. Then got on a Vaporetto and rode all the way around the island to the other side of the island and got off across the Grand Canal from St Mark's Square at another island where the church of San Giorgio Maggiore sits.

This is the place to go to get views OF St Mark's Square and the Doges Palace and OF Venice.

They had a maze in their backyard. How cool is that?

...and sailboats in the side yard.

Across the canal we can see that St Mark's Square is a busy place at 5pm in the afternoon.

Us up in the tower.

We DID go inside the church eventually. This ornate seating area is where the choir sits.

...and another intricate marble floor design.

Karen having a good time with her favorite building in the background.

Went and had pizza at the very first pizzeria in Venice - established in 1947 close to St Mark's Basilica. The pizza was very good.

Karen took over 500 pictures today.

Cool things I saw today.

Saw an apprentice gondolier getting instructions from his "master".

Stick your thumb through the hole of this gizmo. Now place the pointy thing in between two pages of your book and the two wing thingies hold your pages apart so you can read your book with one hand while you eat an ice cream cone with the other.

There is always writing on the walls of buildings that I can't read. SO, I take a picture of them and then learn what it says later and whether it was really important or not. This one reads, "In this place there was the Chapel of the Pietà Conservatory of Music where the genius of Antonio Vivaldi, then not fully understood, he worked as a teacher of concerts from 1703 to 1740, in Venice and giving the world the incomparable riches of his music in 'The Four Seasons' are the flower and the seal. His time has come."

Is this hard to make? I don't know but it looks hard.

A 20X optical zoom camera from Panasonic? TX27. I'll have to look into this when I get home.