Twenty five hours in Venice

Lisa and Pilar met me at the Venice station when I arrived at 1pm on Sunday. We immediately went to our cute guest house just a short walk away. After meeting Stacy the American guest house hostess and artist, we had a warming and delicious lunch at her husband's darling restaurant. We then headed out to Murano, the island with all the glass shops. How to do Venice justice in such a short time? Oh well, we just did it. When it got dark, and very cold and sort of wet we decided to head back from Murano. Preposterously the boat driver stopped not even remotely near where we had gotton on and said (in italian) everybody OFF! So, we had that quintessential Venice experience, we got lost and then had to find our way, which we managed to do with a lot of map consultation, and direction guessing we got back to where we came from! It was 7pm and we were totally exhausted. After a rest, we went out for dinner (late of course) and came up with the plan for today: get up early, take the Vaporetto up the Grand Canal, go to San Marco Square, then find the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum. The joke is that Lisa and Pilar are the most directionally challenged people I know, but I had decided from the beginning they were in charge, they would find the way, and guess what, they did and I followed! It was fun and I'm still feeling the rock of the boats, the tremble of the train, and I'm so glad to be back in Alme in David and Claudia's home flat. Oh so fortunately for me Antonella graciously picked me up at the Bergamo station. More pictures on tomorow's post. I'm whooped!