Thursday 01 March 2007

Arrive in Venice and take a water taxi to our hotel. Our small room (with a smaller shower) was very stylishly decorated in a Venetian sort of way, and had a view overlooking the Grand Canal. At first that sounds very chic, until you realize it’s like having a room next to an interstate. Still… it WAS pretty cool.

While waiting for Christine and Philip to arrive we took off walking and ended up having a light nosh off the canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was on our “shortcut” back to the hotel where we were introduced to the labyrinth that is local Venice. Dead ends, small bridges over canals, smaller alleys… but eventually we made our way back.

The four of us walked over to St. Mark’s Basilica and had drink at Harry’s American Bar which turned out to be an old Ernest Hemmingway hangout and the place where the Bellini was invented. Their Amaretto Sour needs some work though.