My Dad and stepmother planned a holiday in Europe, they came to visit me in Scotland, then a few weeks later we met up in Venice, Italy. Venice was exactly what I thought it would be, magical, other-worldy and just like I’ve seen in the movies. Although it’s strange that there’s no cars anywhere, well the boats are the cars and the roads are all of the canals that link the city together. Another aspect of Venice that was pointed out was that there are barely any trees around the city (the few they have are very important and made a big fuss of) and to compensate they paint doors and posts green and brown to kind of trick peoples brains into thinking that there is foliage around and to be honest before this was pointed out I didn’t notice the lack of trees at all, Venice is just so beautiful as it is.
The food was amazing, last time I was in Italy I was travelling alone as a backpacker in 2012 and was on a fairly tight budget, so I didn’t get to go to any restaurants really, probably the best thing I ate back then was a panni in Florence. This time travelling with family and not being on such a tight budget we were eating in restaurants daily. I think everyone says this, but the pizza was amazing! Always baked in a wood fired oven with a thin, crispy base (none of that deep dish or stuffed crust nonsense) with very few toppings and what was there was full of flavour.
This was one of the local shops we would pass every day in Venice. The photo was taken at about 9:30am, by the time 2pm came around the shop was pretty much empty, it was great to see the chef making everything fresh daily and the smells coming out of this little shop were incredible!
What can I say? When you’re in Italy you have to try gelato! Last time I was in Italy I did a good job of that, especially in Genova and Pisa, yum! This was an almond & nougat gelato, it was still quite warm in Venice in October so the gelato was cool and refreshing in the warm Italian sun.
Beautiful Venice at sunset.
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