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Published: June 14th 2017
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As I write this, I look out the kitchen window to see the gondoliers cruising down the canals beneath our apartment, singing....the sun is setting on a day without a cloud in the sky, our 3 bedroom apartment, between the Rialto and St Marks, on a canal, is perfect....Steven keeps telling me that I really did win the lotto when I married him, and I believe it!
But backtracking...I had a dreadful night sleep...the grappa at 11pm sat heavy all night in my gut, and I was terrified that we would sleep through our 5am alarm. At 4.30am, I gave up and worked on this blog.
By 6am, we had loaded the car and the kids and made our goodbyes to Miranda. I think she and Jonathan might actually come to Australia soon...I hope so. It has been so good to spend this time with them...even though, when we are here, I stress about how the kids appear to those who are childless....
There was no traffic on the highways, and by 7.30am, we were at Dussledorf airport, returning the car...we had done close to 3000km in the 3 and a bit weeks since arriving in Europe.
I was conscious that
Dusseldorf was the area of my Sielaff ancestors...
The flight was uneventful, although beautiful as we crossed over Munich and Bavaria and the Alps - they have some snow, and were picturesque. Then we arrived at Marco Polo airport, walked the short distance to the private water taxi rank, and feeling like the beautiful people, were whisked away in our private boat to Piazza San Marco.
We had stuffed up a little, and didn't record in Tripit the address, name or phone numbers relating to the hire of this apartment Ca Vecchia Pozzo. So we arrived at Saint Marks, and whilst looking for a nice cafe with wifi, for us to google it, met a lovely doorman at a 4 star hotel, who insisted that we use the hotel wifi to find what we needed. Ten minutes later, we were eating pizzas at a local cafe before meeting Carlo the landlord under the clock tower at St Marks. He wound us back through the little streets to find our apartment...going to need a trail of breadcrumbs to find it again!!!
The apartment is fantastic - on a tiny square, down a little alley, with two faces of the apartment facing canals. It
is relatively quiet, except for the bells of the Armenian church and the chatter of the gondoliers as they pass outside our kitchen, lounge and bedroom windows! Some dramas getting sufficient money from ATMs, as our host required 800 Euro payment and the machine gives us 500 euro as a daily limit on cash advance, but this wasn't a problem.
Everyone was exhausted after our big day, so an afternoon rest, then a bit of an exploration if the local neighbourhood before dinner just around the corner - G got her lasagna birthday meal!!
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Bringing back great memories. Don't forget the Bellini in Harry's Bar x