Italia I - Mestre/Venezia avec Sasa, Angela, Priscilla et Philippo

Welcome to magical Venezia :)

It all started on the Friday 6 June,

taking the train from Les Arcs-Draguignan (Camille hometown).

Luca seemed very happy, he was less once in the train in Nice

giving us a hard sleeping night while toothing...

not nice for our elderly neighbours hum hum !

The orange professional team, for a tour in the canals around Mestre

and see the fort Marghera

Look at the beautiful "FORCOLA"to hold the paddle

Attention, dangerous ground...

Sasa is saving us :)

Angela, Sasa and Camille in Pedro's sunglasses

After a nice lunch at Marcia's place

with an excellent (homegrown) zucchini pastas,

another comfort after the effort :)

very nice asparagus pasticio from Angela's mum,

anchovies by Sasa and proseccio by Sasa and Angela !

Luca is also enjoying the rest and playing with Philippo

To Angela,

the empty place where it used to be a beautiful vegetable stall :(

And then the magical Venezia started...

We went at 8 people (Angela, Sasa, Stefano, Irene, Pedro, Luca, Camille and a half blind dog)

in a little traditional barca, with beautiful colours,

from Stefano and friend, manoeuvered with brio by our master Angela,

we flew in the silence (almost, as Stefano was shouting in Italian most of the time)

in the canals and meandering around...

Of course there are tags in Venezia, but also nice red underwear...

(I have heard that for new years eve,

Italians wear red underwear... they dry it in summer then ;)

very little street

Another barca (the green, Stefano's is the blue one),

other friends... it is incredible how Venezia is a small town

Interesting drying clothing again

and Pedro is enjoying the walk hihihi

Flowers and water,

WHY the white stones within the brick walls ???

(one of the other ten thousand silly questions

we asked Angela and Sasa about Venezia)

White step at each side of the bridge, where people from

rival sides would fight until falling into the canal

religion and reflections ;)

Many pots, many ???

Street and jewelleries

Nice...

Ahhh the gondolas!

and pretty streets to get lost...

Angela, Tomasio,

Adolfo, Sasa

Katia, Pedro

Camille, Luca and pomodori

Canals and maybe Corto was here?

Altana and algae

Luca's trying to walk, Pedro's trying to pause hihihi

Well, with a chair it is easier

View from the Accademia bridge

Tourists... everywhere...

Piazza San Marco view from the tower Campanile

Spying from the balcony...

Corto was definitively here

A bit tired the family from walking around and getting lost

Roooar pour rugir de plaisir

Corto es tu la?

And above all the beautiful smell of Jasmin all around us...

Tres enivrant

Roooar

Pour Gege et Domi

A gondola is hiding

After being naughy when I was collapsing due to hypoglycemia,

this was my message to Pedro

Luca enjoying the view

The pigeon repelant... everywhere

The gondolianer everywhere too

Look the bull at the back of the boat... wrong place?

Incredible, a woman gondolianer, but she is not wearing the uniform

(stripped top) as no woman are officially gondolianer.

We told you they were everywhere... look at the mess

He is soooo cute ;)

Marghera from the train between Venezia

and Mestre on our way home