My
first and and all time favourite
impression of Venice is walking out of the Santa Lucia Railway station,
which is just like any other railway station in Italy, into a completely
different world. Different buildings, different transport system, different
noises – the quiet purrs of canal boats, the low murmurings of people, and No
Traffic!
Today was even better - there
were hardly any people around! We
checked into Hotel Abbazia, one of our favourite hotels
- beautiful rooms, and foyers and better still, handy to the railway
station so you cannot get lost looking for it – on other occasions we have
spent much time looking for hotels along Venice’s many narrow and identical (to
us) ‘road’ ways – never again……
It is always a delight to stroll around Venice, especially when there are
no crowds! As always upon our visits
here, we discover new places. Today’s
discovery was one of a chain of small
Irish pubs! Not quite the same as other
Irish pubs world wide but definitely Irish, warm, friendly and with reasonably priced beer and cheap sandwiches - ideal
for a walking city! And yes, we were
doing a lot of walking on this day – St Marks Square – still no crowds apart
from a few groups of tourists, my
favourite lingerie shop, the Black Cat
Shop for our Black Cat Calendar, the Rialto bridge and markets and well, generally strolling – oh look – there is another of those little Irish
pubs……..
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