Today we took the free taxi from our hotel to Murano Island. I knew it was a scam when the concierge said we would need to pay our own way back to Venice but we went anyway. It turned out to be a lot of fun. It was really exciting racing through the Venice lagoon on the water taxi. We were met in Murano by a glass salesman and taken on a “tour”. It wasn’t too bad, though, and we did see a bit of glasswork being done.
Afterwards we ate at Ristorante Busa. Alex continued his eat-like-the-locals thing and ordered cuttlefish cooked in its own ink. Rachel was thrilled that a 1 ½ eared cat sat under our table and I was happy to finally order acqua rubinetta (tap water) and actually be served instead of having to buy the icky bottled water they push everywhere here. When we were done eating we walked through the streets of shops filled with souvenir quality (and mostly tacky) glass stuff, and went into way too many of them. Catching the vaporetto back was exciting – we transferred boats at San Marco and took the bus all the way up the Grand Canal to our local stop.
We were supposed to go to dinner at Sangal’s. But we got lost on the way there somehow, and arrived late, by 25 minutes. We looked at the menu in the window - super expensive. We decided to forget it and went to the Hard Rock Cafe down the way. It was fun, because we made a list of all our "best of's" for the trip. I'll post them later. This was our final big night in Italy. Tomorrow we need to pack and hit the hay early. I can’t believe the end of our trip is here.
Afterwards we ate at Ristorante Busa. Alex continued his eat-like-the-locals thing and ordered cuttlefish cooked in its own ink. Rachel was thrilled that a 1 ½ eared cat sat under our table and I was happy to finally order acqua rubinetta (tap water) and actually be served instead of having to buy the icky bottled water they push everywhere here. When we were done eating we walked through the streets of shops filled with souvenir quality (and mostly tacky) glass stuff, and went into way too many of them. Catching the vaporetto back was exciting – we transferred boats at San Marco and took the bus all the way up the Grand Canal to our local stop.
We were supposed to go to dinner at Sangal’s. But we got lost on the way there somehow, and arrived late, by 25 minutes. We looked at the menu in the window - super expensive. We decided to forget it and went to the Hard Rock Cafe down the way. It was fun, because we made a list of all our "best of's" for the trip. I'll post them later. This was our final big night in Italy. Tomorrow we need to pack and hit the hay early. I can’t believe the end of our trip is here.
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