We went to Venice on the Monday morning after our wedding for our final honeymoon.
It was a magical place! So nice, clean, pretty but so busy! People everywhere!
We stayed in a beautiful hotel there called Hotel Danieli, which was a 14th century palace on the Grand Canal right next to St Marks Square. They where all so friendly and lovely. We did get an upgrade with Stephens platinum card, so we got a better room and free breakfast up on the terrace (the breakfast normally costs 39 Euros/per person per day!!)
On the first day when we arrived we went for a walk and got lost. Everything looks the same, bridges, water and no roads are straight so you think you are going one way and end up somewhere else! But it was so much fun! We saw more things then than we did the day after when we had a map and a route pointed out for us :)
On the second day we visited the museums and saw all the art and swords etc. Very interesting.
On the third day we went out to a factory that makes glass art the Muano glass art.
We saw how the made the different colours that would later go into the vases, sculptures, glasses etc. So cool! The oven they uses are over 1000 Degrees warm. We were then taken up to the showrooms where we could see all the collections, lucky we "only" came home with a beautiful lovers sculpture rather than with a boat, vase, glasses and what else Mr Stephen found that he liked! They are engraving it with our names and the date we got married and sending it to UK for us.
In the afternoon we went to an other island called Burano and it was so pretty! Colourful houses, water and cute restaurants everywhere! Loved it!
We also had time to eat in some pretty cool restaurants ! The first night we had dinner in the hotel on the top floor, a restaurant called Terrace Daneili. It had the best view of Venice!!!
The second night we went to a Michelin star restaurant on the Saint Marc's Square called Quadri. Great food and lovely waiters, but you always get little extra tasters that you don't order, and it is always things I don't like!! But it is so rude not to eat it! This time Stephen had two of everything!
The third night we first had an amazing gondala ride, I know it is cheesy but had to be done! Then went to a nice little place on a square that did the usual, pasta, pizza, fish and meat. And the food was great but the waiters were so rude and more like the Italy I remember! Won't recommend it to anyone! But you got lots and lots of food!! So we were super stuffed afterwards! Walking home to the hotel we could feel a storm coming, so we stopped at the square and took lots of pictures of the lightning, amazing pictures when we managed to time it right!!
On the forth day we flew back to Delhi! First to Istanbul, waited 5 hours and then to Delhi, we flew over thunder and lightning which was pretty cool as I have never seen it from above before!
It was a magical place! So nice, clean, pretty but so busy! People everywhere!
We stayed in a beautiful hotel there called Hotel Danieli, which was a 14th century palace on the Grand Canal right next to St Marks Square. They where all so friendly and lovely. We did get an upgrade with Stephens platinum card, so we got a better room and free breakfast up on the terrace (the breakfast normally costs 39 Euros/per person per day!!)
On the first day when we arrived we went for a walk and got lost. Everything looks the same, bridges, water and no roads are straight so you think you are going one way and end up somewhere else! But it was so much fun! We saw more things then than we did the day after when we had a map and a route pointed out for us :)
On the second day we visited the museums and saw all the art and swords etc. Very interesting.
On the third day we went out to a factory that makes glass art the Muano glass art.
We saw how the made the different colours that would later go into the vases, sculptures, glasses etc. So cool! The oven they uses are over 1000 Degrees warm. We were then taken up to the showrooms where we could see all the collections, lucky we "only" came home with a beautiful lovers sculpture rather than with a boat, vase, glasses and what else Mr Stephen found that he liked! They are engraving it with our names and the date we got married and sending it to UK for us.
In the afternoon we went to an other island called Burano and it was so pretty! Colourful houses, water and cute restaurants everywhere! Loved it!
We also had time to eat in some pretty cool restaurants ! The first night we had dinner in the hotel on the top floor, a restaurant called Terrace Daneili. It had the best view of Venice!!!
The second night we went to a Michelin star restaurant on the Saint Marc's Square called Quadri. Great food and lovely waiters, but you always get little extra tasters that you don't order, and it is always things I don't like!! But it is so rude not to eat it! This time Stephen had two of everything!
The third night we first had an amazing gondala ride, I know it is cheesy but had to be done! Then went to a nice little place on a square that did the usual, pasta, pizza, fish and meat. And the food was great but the waiters were so rude and more like the Italy I remember! Won't recommend it to anyone! But you got lots and lots of food!! So we were super stuffed afterwards! Walking home to the hotel we could feel a storm coming, so we stopped at the square and took lots of pictures of the lightning, amazing pictures when we managed to time it right!!
On the forth day we flew back to Delhi! First to Istanbul, waited 5 hours and then to Delhi, we flew over thunder and lightning which was pretty cool as I have never seen it from above before!
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| Water Taxis waiting outside the airport |
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| Me in the taxi on the way to the hotel |
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| Stephen on the way to the hotel |
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| The lobby of our hotel |
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| In front of our room |
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| our room, we got the view over the Grand Canal and lagoon |
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| the view from the room |
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| Stephen |
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| A square we found when we were wandering |
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| On the top of the hotel having cocktails |
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| Outside our room |
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| Stephen choosing icecream |
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| On the stairs looking down to hotel lobby |
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| On Burano |
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| Very colourful! |
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| This is how happy Stephen was when he got Rose'! |
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| On our gondola! |
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| Limoncello |
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| Saint Mark's Square |
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| Venice was amazing! |
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