Venice

"It seemed like a magical city, floating on the lagoon as if conjured by an enchanters wand." 
- Kate Forsyth

Early Morning Venice

Saturday November 3, 2018. We wake early ready to see Venice in the light.  It’s a nice day with none of the wind and rain that produced the large floods early in the week. We walk to the Rialto Bridge at nearly high tide to see the water just coming over the walk. Venice is an amazing visual experience the first time you see it. We walk around to get our bearings.

We have some lunch at a small at Osteria al Garanghelo. and retire for some relaxation before our early evening tour of the typical Venetian experience of Cicchetti and wine. We leave early for our tour to check out who is on the streets on Saturday afternoon in this non tourist season. We find families and dogs and some tourists, like ourselves, taking a gondola ride.

We join our small tour of 7 at the round church in Campo della Maddalena. Its a church which dates back to the 12th century and the square is very good people watching.

Rialto Bridge

We taste our way through through the back street bacari’s in Venice to eat cicchetti. Bacari’s are tiny, hole in wall wine bars, where you eat standing and drink standing up. Cicchett is Venice’s version of Spanish tapas. We first crossed the Grand Canal on a Traghetto ferry. A gondola that takes many people from one side of a canal to the other. Getting off at the Rialto Bridge we went to 5 different Bacari’s where we tried grilled baby squid, calamari, meatballs, polenta topped with sardines and marinated artichoke to name a few. All served with a local house wine.

Cicchetti