Our hotel, to the right
hotel
Piazza San Marco
St. Mark's Basilica
The tide, aqua alta, around St. Mark's Basilica
Jonathan watching the tide come up
The Doge's Palace
Tide water in Piazza San Marco
On the tour of the Doge's Palace
Busses on the Grand Canal
Sitting in the sun, drinking hot chocolate...
The best hot chocolate ever!
I was covered with powdered sugar most of the weekend...
Even Jonathan didn't manage to stay clean of the powdered sugar...
Rialto Bridge
Local specialty, dressed crab in its shell
Clams! The small ones are some sort of local clam that I've never had before, delicious!
Fried seafood, vegetables, and grilled polenta, yum!
By our hotel
In front of the hotel
Checking the status of the tide. Again.
Mmmmm, found this yummy things in some sort of black market bakery. The baker told us how much to pay by writing numbers in powdered sugar on the counter.
Jewish ghetto (the ghetto that coined the word)
Sun worship
Italians know how to make hot chocolate!
Mmmm
I think we only saw one tower that stood straight. This was not it.
Sunset on the Grand Canal, from Rialto Bridge
Grand Canal
our hotel
At a "rosticceria," Italian fast food? Sure beats McDonalds
Hotel breakfast, watching people boating to work
Short clip of a gondola seranade
St. Mark's and the Doge's Palace.
San Giorgio Maggiore
Frittelle ricotta, our culinary discovery of the weekend, sooooo good!
Yummy coffee drinks, not sure what was in them...
...here's the menu
Near the hotel
Canal our hotel was on
A fried mozerella sandwich, Rosticceria San Bartolomeo's specialty
The last hot chocolate, before returning to the land where ordering hot chocolate means paying 30 SEK for milk and O'boy powder....
