Venice Day 3
This day involved walking around the streets of the city and looking for the right things
to buy, going to the Doges Palace, taking a ride on a gondola and various other
adventures. We began with a ride on the vaporetto
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past many gondolas
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ready for action on our way to the Rialto Bridge
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Once there, we found this hat for Benjamin
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but decided that this one
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fit better. Then we had to find a WC
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like this one. On our walk through the city, we saw this scene
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that seemed necessary for our album. Lunch was at a bar where everyone
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was happy to be eating and Benjamin
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gave a water bottle concert to those in the bar and the adjoining pizzeria
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Next we went past the good gelateria
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where we saw this sign in Hebrew
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and past this unique place
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until we reached this store that sold Doges
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and this unique model
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(notice the photographic effects!).
We stopped on the way to our siesta at a cafe where David's menta granita
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was the hit.
We began the afternoon's activities at the Doges' Palace where the interior looks like this
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and the view includes this
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not to mention the weird face
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and the statues of Atlas
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and Hercules
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We weren't allowed up the fancy stairs (since we are human)
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which are guarded by Jupiter and Neptune
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and so we had to go up the interior stairs
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but we did get to see the
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Bridge of Sighs from which we captured these views
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from both directions and then from the Palace you can view out to the harbor in these
nice ways
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Next came the gondola ride. Our driver seemed to be in control
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which made all of us happy
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This led to an orgy of photography including views on the boat
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the church of the Madonna
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because she saved them from a plague that killed 1/3 of the Venetians and views of other
gondolas
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and of buildings along the canal
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including the fanciest hotel in town
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and the place where a few Doges lived
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with a mosaic made of Murano glass and the postal service
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and a bridge
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at the closed museum Suzanne had hoped to visit and the places where Lord Byron
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and Mozart
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lived. We turned at the Rialto bridge
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which we have visited before into a narrow canal
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that had buildings in the modern Venetian style
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and a movie theater
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playing M-I-2.
One bridge was particularly hard to navigate
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before we got back and headed to our dinner.
After a few pictures
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at Harry's Bar we headed off to dinner where everyone was tired and hungry
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Suzanne and David were quite happy
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and the waiter fell in love with Benjamin
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En route back to the hotel, we had what might be our last gelato in Italia
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