Here are photos of the second day in Venice, when we visited the islands of Murano and Burano. Each island has it’s own different personality! Very enjoyable.
Today has been a nice lazy day at home, with a nice walk into the Parco di Monza and gelato in Vedano.
Here they are, for you to enjoy! Today I went through the first day of Venice photos, and posted my favorites. I hope they give you a little flavor of the city and what we experienced. The rest will come soon.
Today I also did my first clothes shopping here in Italy. I asked Paola, one of the women I work with here, some good places to go. I wanted to get a couple more skirts for the hot weather to wear to work and for travel, so much cooler and nicer looking when you can’t or don’t want to wear shorts! She pointed me to an outlet store nearby and a good mall. I didn’t find anything at the outlet store but did have some luck at the mall. Sizing is different and the average body type is different here so it was interesting at first trying to guess what size to try on. After a few visits to the “camerini” I had it narrowed down to a range of 2 or 3 sizes.
I can tell I’m getting used to the more expensive prices here, because I was happy to find two skirts and a shirt I liked at a couple of different stores at a “good price”. On the “cheap” end of things, really. It was Euro 70.00 total – which equates to around $100 at the current exchange rate. Now, at home, my favorite stores are Ross and TJ Maxx and don’t like to spend more than $20 on any one piece of clothing – and that only occasionally – so this is a lot for me! But that’s the price we pay for living in Italy – literally.
Venice. What a feast for the eyes, food for the creative soul. What an amazing place to see, to experience, to photograph. It made me want to stop and take in every view, explore the city at all day to see how it looks in every light. I think this ranks up there as a place that everyone should visit in person before they die… along with the outlying islands of Murano and Burano that we also visited.
This weekend I intend to sort through the 898 photos I took to find the very best to share with you all. Until then, I updated my profile pic as a teaser. Sometimes I can’t believe that we live in Italy and we are able to just walk out the door with our suitcase and get to a place like this in a couple of hours.
This has been a crazy week for me, and as soon as we arrived home from Venice on Tuesday evening I was working and on the phone to Corvallis. We had a big meeting on Thursday between my company and the company we work with, had visitors in from Corvallis so lots of meetings, dinners, etc. and I am tired! I look forward to a calm weekend at home, sorting through pics.
