Moose On The Loose In Venice! Part 2: Who Needs PPE?

Join me for a second day in Venice and the last day of Italia 24. With more to see, experience and discover we didn’t waste anytime in getting started.

Coffee is always the best way to start a day. Italy has a reputation for serving amazing coffee, but I’m not convinced. I wouldn’t say I’ve had any outstanding coffee on any of my visits to the boot shaped country. The coffee above was fine but not amazing, the toasty was good though!

We took a water taxi to Murano island, which was stunning.

The weather was boiling, which was perfect to go on a tour of the glass furnace.

The tour and glass blowing show lasted around fifteen minutes. There were signs everywhere saying no smoking, which the guy doing the glass blowing clearly hadn’t seen as he managed just three cigarettes during the show! He also didn’t bother wearing gloves or any PPE. I guess Italian T-shirts and jeans are fire proof?

At the end you get to look in a shop selling products made here, which was enough to make even the non clumsy feel nervous.

A trip to Venice wouldn’t be complete without seeing if you can fit through the narrowest ally way in the city!

Fear not, I made it through with ease!

We then went into St Mark’s Basilica.

Not bad isn’t it? I think I prefer Ravenna though!

Of course we had to do a gondola ride. It cost around €20 each (I think) and lasted around 45 minutes. After gracefully getting into the gondola, it was great to experience the water based city from the water.

We then had our final Italian food fix.

The lasagne was ok, but not amazing.

It was then time to get a water taxi back to Marco Polo airport and fly home. On the flight I tired to summarise my thoughts on Venice. I feel that Venice is somewhere you should visit once to say you’ve been. It’s very, very touristy and therefore busy. Despite us trying our best to eat at places the locals would, the food wasn’t breath taking. It was fine and tasty, but no where near the best food I’ve had in Italy. Venice is pretty, I’ll give it that, but I wouldn't say that it is the prettiest place in Italy. In all honesty, I don’t get the hype. I’ll still stand by Bologna being my favourite place in Italy, though I haven’t been to Milan or Florence. Despite all of this, I however glad I got to visit Venice.

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