It's Thursday night and it's been a busy couple of days!!! We left our incredible Venice hotel yesterday after oversleeping until almost noon! We rushed around, showered, packed and headed to Venice Lunch was enjoyed in a waterside cafe, I had a margarita pizza and Krystal had grilled prawns. San Marco's piazza area was totally crowded with tourists. Many cruise ships dock here.
The main excuse for this trip was the Binnale in Venice, which is a popular international art show. We walked down to it but didn't have time to see it! Our train was departing Venice for Florence at 3:30. We hurried back to our hotel by boat to get our luggage and then took a water taxi to the terminal. We loved Venice and hated to leave so quickly but fun and friends await us in Florence!
We boarded our Eurostar train and sat next to a couple who were arguing terribly, sadly they were Americans. They either fought the whole time or wouldn't speak to each other. We and a nice trip other then that. We arrived in Florence at 5:30pm, got a taxi to Jackie and Tom's apartment. Jackie had cocktails and snacks for us on their beautiful balcony. Their 3 bedroom apartment was in a lovely and centrally located area in Florence. Jackie had been teaching a group of Drury students for a month in Florence. This was their last night there.
We enjoyed a wonderful dinner by the Arno River and headed to bed.
Krystal and I were up at 6:30 for a brisk walk up into the wooded hills above Florence, met Jackie for coffee and showered and packed up. Our bus was scheduled to depart at 10:00 am. We were heading to Elba, which is a gorgeous island off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. We rode on a ferry to get across.
We had a delicious fresh fish lunch by the sea and did some sightseeing and shopping afterward. I was supposed to leave tomorrow to go to Pisa to spend the night and meet up with Megan on .Saturday but really wanted to spend more time here in Elba with my friends. thanks for Debbie, she was able to get me a flight out of here Saturday morning and still get to Barcelona in time.
I know we will have a great time tomorrow scouting out great and fun places on Elba.
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Sounds like you are having a great adventure. I'm so glad you got to go. Have fun with Megan and post again when you can. We're celebrating the 4th at the Rangers game tonight. Happy Fourth of July wherever you are today.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nancy, I hope u had a fun 4th too. We loved Granada, not as impressed with Seville. It's fun being with Megan. j
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