For all of you in Lethbridge and surrounding area: Go to the National Historica Fair! There, I've done my duty, you are reminded.
Pictures: St. Peter's Dome, Vatican City dress code sign (turn your head, I can't figure out how to rotate it!), looking out at St. Peter's Square, looking down from climbing the Dome at St. Peter's, Me tossing a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
In other events, after not seeing an internet cafe in days, we have hit a glut of them in the last 36 hours. Right now we are in the Treviso airport waiting for our plane to Krakow. We will be waiting for awhile since the bus ride here took shorter than predicted. I suppose that is better than the other way. Yesterday the vaporetti (boat busses) went on strike in Venice for 7 hours. Apparently they just wanted to go to the beach on a Friday afternoon because they are all back to work today.
Yesterday we enjoyed a perfect day in Venice. Keith got "up with the pigeons" to take pictures of St. Mark's Square minus the tourists, then brought back a chocolate filled croissant to supplement our usual hotel breakfast of rolls, melba toast and hot chocolate. We then made our way by vaporetto to the island of Murano. We enjoyed a cappecino each as we waited for more shops to open as I searched for the perfect piece of Murano glass jewellry both for myself and others who had put their requests in (and you too, Mom). It was very interesting to me that not all shops in Murano sell authentic Murano glass. The ones who do have signs with the offical seal as well as reminders that they do not sell anything from China! I can't believe that they are just not run off the island for selling fakes, but I suppose that is one of the downfalls of a free economy.
We stayed in Murano for lunch and then headed back across the water to Venice. We did a little more wandering, found the location where the evening concert we were headed to would be, and then took a gondola ride. It was a very quiet, peaceful experience and our gondolier was quite knowledgeable about the palazzos we passed by.
We attended a concert in the evening featuring a baroque string quintet. Is was beautiful. I am looking forward to less Western tourists in Poland!
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