(written by Lyn)
Finally on our flight from Dubai to Venice and we are both getting really excited!! Listening to all the Italian accents onboard but itàs also bringing in reality of needing to communicate in a non-English country. We both have started to pick out kiwi and aussies in the crowds. So far we have been on flights and waiting in airports for nearly 30hrs with little sleep and our eyes are starting to feel it. Especially when we said it felt like dinner time yet worked out it was only 5am in Italy!!!
We are still bubbling over with excitment despite no sleep. Craig said itàs giving him some appreciation of what a nightshift can feel like now. The flight from Auckland to Dubai was mostly in darkness but this last stretch, daylight has given us some amazing views, especially of the desserts in the middle east. We also managed to snap some pics of the manmade palm islands of Dubai but very hazy with sand and smog on the horizon. Makes us appreciate the green grass and treees, and blue skies of home.
Then suddenly before we knew it there was beautiful snow everywhere!!! This is what we'd come to see! Yay! It's all happening!! Announcement just made by the pilot ... 7 degrees in Venice!! Eek! Lucky we packed our woollens.
Just landed in Venice and ... Guess what? There's no customs! Don't know what's up with that! lol
So far now Venice has not disappointed us. Craig prebooked a hotel in the canal part of Venice. So after taking a watertaxi there, we found 'Pensione Seguso'. It is out of this world!! Our room with it's own delightful shutters that look out to the canal 3 stories below, as we watch the boats go by.
There are washinglines of clothes hanging out of the windows and each of the old historic buildings still look like they would have done a couple of hundred years ago. And we love the eccentric colours they are painted, just like in the postcards. Our hotel felt like walking into 'Fawlty Towers' complete with the bossy nagging lady of the house and her husband that hides in the kitchen smoking cigerettes while his wife has gone out.
The furniture and cracks in the paintwork tell the story of when it was first opened up to provide a roof over the heads of allied forces who needed it during the war.
Our first night in Italy was topped off by an annual carnival being on tomorrow including mascarade masks. For dinner we went down and got official Italian pizza from a place that was run by what looked like the mafia... the 'don' serving us in his suit and tie. Pizza and wine. Perfect!!
Finally on our flight from Dubai to Venice and we are both getting really excited!! Listening to all the Italian accents onboard but itàs also bringing in reality of needing to communicate in a non-English country. We both have started to pick out kiwi and aussies in the crowds. So far we have been on flights and waiting in airports for nearly 30hrs with little sleep and our eyes are starting to feel it. Especially when we said it felt like dinner time yet worked out it was only 5am in Italy!!!
We are still bubbling over with excitment despite no sleep. Craig said itàs giving him some appreciation of what a nightshift can feel like now. The flight from Auckland to Dubai was mostly in darkness but this last stretch, daylight has given us some amazing views, especially of the desserts in the middle east. We also managed to snap some pics of the manmade palm islands of Dubai but very hazy with sand and smog on the horizon. Makes us appreciate the green grass and treees, and blue skies of home.
Then suddenly before we knew it there was beautiful snow everywhere!!! This is what we'd come to see! Yay! It's all happening!! Announcement just made by the pilot ... 7 degrees in Venice!! Eek! Lucky we packed our woollens.
Just landed in Venice and ... Guess what? There's no customs! Don't know what's up with that! lol
So far now Venice has not disappointed us. Craig prebooked a hotel in the canal part of Venice. So after taking a watertaxi there, we found 'Pensione Seguso'. It is out of this world!! Our room with it's own delightful shutters that look out to the canal 3 stories below, as we watch the boats go by.
There are washinglines of clothes hanging out of the windows and each of the old historic buildings still look like they would have done a couple of hundred years ago. And we love the eccentric colours they are painted, just like in the postcards. Our hotel felt like walking into 'Fawlty Towers' complete with the bossy nagging lady of the house and her husband that hides in the kitchen smoking cigerettes while his wife has gone out.
The furniture and cracks in the paintwork tell the story of when it was first opened up to provide a roof over the heads of allied forces who needed it during the war.
Our first night in Italy was topped off by an annual carnival being on tomorrow including mascarade masks. For dinner we went down and got official Italian pizza from a place that was run by what looked like the mafia... the 'don' serving us in his suit and tie. Pizza and wine. Perfect!!
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