Venice, Italy
June 11, 2010
The kids and I are sitting in an internet cafe while Paul is in another cafe watching the World Cup with an international crowd. The nearby water is filled with boats including gondolas. No cars are allowed in Venice so pedestrians are streaming by outside. Today most of the water buses are on strike, making it quite the adventure getting our luggage from the hotel to the train station to store it for the day. Since only a few boats are running we had to pull our suitcases on and off two of the running boats, through Saint Marco's Plaza, pigeons flying as we walked past, up and down the many bridges with stairs crossing the small canals, making a 30 minute trip into two hours. And it's hot...always an adventure.
Tonight we are taking a night train to Vienna, Austria sleeping on bunk beds in our four person cabin.
Ciao and love,
Jackie
June 11, 2010
The kids and I are sitting in an internet cafe while Paul is in another cafe watching the World Cup with an international crowd. The nearby water is filled with boats including gondolas. No cars are allowed in Venice so pedestrians are streaming by outside. Today most of the water buses are on strike, making it quite the adventure getting our luggage from the hotel to the train station to store it for the day. Since only a few boats are running we had to pull our suitcases on and off two of the running boats, through Saint Marco's Plaza, pigeons flying as we walked past, up and down the many bridges with stairs crossing the small canals, making a 30 minute trip into two hours. And it's hot...always an adventure.
Tonight we are taking a night train to Vienna, Austria sleeping on bunk beds in our four person cabin.
Ciao and love,
Jackie
(Picture: Paul carrying Ben's pack while Ben pulled a wheeled bag. During our two hour trek the kids took turns pulling bags. Bag on front - also a good idea as the woman sitting next to us in the intenet cafe had her purse pickpocked the night before and had to busily contact home to cancel credit cards.)
2 comments:
We really enjoyed our chats in Sorrento at Il Nido and have been following your travels since we left. We still have Venice on our list of places to visit.
Our son, who also did a world trip with his family, wants your blog, so I am forwarding it to him.
More happy travels!!
Art & Jan
Hi! My name is Kevin Fisher. Art and Jan are my parents.
Your trip is amazing!
We did our trip-around-the-world from July 21st 2006 until January 21st 2007.
At that time, our boys were ages 10 and 13. I quit my job and my wife took a leave of absence from her job.
In all of our travels, we never met another family on such a journey. Glad to see that we are not the only crazy ones!
Our blog is still there: http://hifiworldtour.blogspot.com/
We live in Palo Alto, CA. Would enjoy meeting you sometime if you are in the Bay Area.
Kevin Fisher
k-dot-fisher-at-pacbell-dot-net
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