Venice

Sunday,June 2, 2013
We are home now but didn't get to post at all while we were in Venice, so we'll do that now.

We left Ventena Vecchia early and drove the autostrata to Venice.  Made it in 2 hours 45 min easily. Returning the car was a snap(getting gas was not) and we rolled our luggage to the airport to wait for Helen's family.  They arrived, kisses & introductions all around and we were off for the Water Taxi.  Here are Mette, Asger ( little tired but a trooper!), Linda & Aaron.

The water taxi took us right to our flat.  It was perfect! 2 livingrooms, 4 bedrooms a kitchen amd 2 balconies.  Mette, Aaron's wife, who had lived in Venice and graduated from high school there, said our location was very central to all the action and would be easy to find once we began to explore. Here's Kriegh (Helen's brother) and Aaron, his son, out on one of the balconies enjoying a glass of wine that Jill & Helen brought from Tuscany!

If they look to their right, here is the view of the piazza.

                                                        This is the main livingroom.

After we got settled, we walked to dinner.  One of the things Helen's family did for Jill was to introduce her to many foods she had never had.  Like black squid ink pasta, fritto misto and bottles of brunello and spitz. Here's Kriegh with a Spritz!

                                                                          Two pastas!