Carol's Life After Retirement
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    • Lake Como
    • The Dolomites
    • Bolzano
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    • Pisa
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    • San Gimignano
    • Siena
    • Assisi
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    • Rome >
      • Vatican
      • The Pantheon
      • The Coliseum
    • Final Thoughts
  • Spain!
    • Lisbon
    • Sintra
    • Obidos-Nazare
    • Oporto
    • Pontevedra
    • Santiago
    • Leon-Astorga
    • Santander
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    • Gernika
    • Pamplona
    • Bielsa
    • Ainsa
    • Barcelona
    • Final Thoughts
  • Costa Rica!
    • Sarchi
    • Arenal
    • Cano Negro
    • Monteverde
    • Manuel Antonio
    • San Jose
    • Sum of it All
  • China!
    • Shanghai
    • Beijing
    • Xian
    • Chengdu
    • Lhasa, Tibet
    • Chongqing
    • Yangtze River
    • Hong Kong
    • 10 Best
    • Faces of China
    • China Final Thoughts
    • China Resources
  • Scotland!
    • Edinburgh
    • Aviemore
    • Culloden
    • Wick
    • Isle of Skye
    • Glasgow
    • Scottish Themes
    • Scotland Final Thoughts
  • Site Info
  • Greece!
    • Greece Recap
    • Athens
    • Mycenae
    • Olympia
    • Delphi
    • Meteora
    • Mykonos
    • Santorini

Venice

Venice is amazing. One young man, a gondolier since age 13, said he was Venetian, not Italian.


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About Patterns

St. Mark's has beautiful floors.  Many of them resembled American patchwork quilts.  I had always thought that the patterns we use in quilting  were uniquely American, but finding roots in the floors of St Mark's Cathedral was inspiring.  What we do in cloth, they did in marble.


Floors of Venice ➡️

About Gondolas

We took a ride on a gondola, which included an accordion and singer. The romantic kind, somewhat dimmed because there were 4-5 of the tour group on each gondola, and no wine. It did get exciting when our gondolier narrowly missed ramming the opposition--a motorized boat.

Walking around Venice was pretty easy, I mean, how can you get lost on an island?  Well..you have to walk north to find the bridge to take you south.  It may or may not be on the map. Or you can take a quick gondola-taxi which also means boarding and exiting at undisclosed locations.
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⬅️ Back to Italy home
Next to Florence➡️

Venice Images

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