LIVE Italy Land trip then 10 days on Pride, Oct 18-29 to Greece, Turkey, Sicily and more Italy with ninjacat123!

[Essiesmom]

Those bridges in Venice were what convinced us to do COO.  Ten years ago.  EM

[ninjacat123]

Our place in Venice is sweet!! Owner came by and got us settled in 👍

[ninjacat123]

3 minutes ago, Essiesmom said:

Those bridges in Venice were what convinced us to do COO.  Ten years ago.  EM

Oh I wouldn’t want to drag anything bigger than COO over those bridges. Just emphasizing that it’s difficult even with COO.! Getting off the vaperetto today a woman to a tumble with her luggage. Not good.

[SkipsMom]

When I was in Venice in May, I had a 25 inch bag & backpack.  We stayed near Piazzale Roma and only one bridge to deal with.  That experience is my motivation for COO next time 😄

 

You mentioned that your last train segment was a regional train. Did you have to make a change? 

I'm just starting to research the train from Rome to Venice and thought the Frecciarrosa trains were direct to  S Lucia station?  I'm finding the Trenitalia website a little confusing.

 

 

 

 

 

[ninjacat123]

59 minutes ago, SkipsMom said:

When I was in Venice in May, I had a 25 inch bag & backpack.  We stayed near Piazzale Roma and only one bridge to deal with.  That experience is my motivation for COO next time 😄

 

You mentioned that your last train segment was a regional train. Did you have to make a change? 

I'm just starting to research the train from Rome to Venice and thought the Frecciarrosa trains were direct to  S Lucia station?  I'm finding the Trenitalia website a little confusing.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes we had a change to a regional for the second half. Seats aren’t assigned so get to your connection asap for seats and luggage space. I’ll let you know how my pre booked tickets work out tomorrow 👍

[carsastic]

2 hours ago, SkipsMom said:

When I was in Venice in May, I had a 25 inch bag & backpack.  We stayed near Piazzale Roma and only one bridge to deal with.  That experience is my motivation for COO next time 😄

 

You mentioned that your last train segment was a regional train. Did you have to make a change? 

I'm just starting to research the train from Rome to Venice and thought the Frecciarrosa trains were direct to  S Lucia station?  I'm finding the Trenitalia website a little confusing.

 

 

 

 

 

We always get a direct , i think this year we had to do tentitalia   

[carsastic]

2 hours ago, SkipsMom said:

When I was in Venice in May, I had a 25 inch bag & backpack.  We stayed near Piazzale Roma and only one bridge to deal with.  That experience is my motivation for COO next time 😄

 

You mentioned that your last train segment was a regional train. Did you have to make a change? 

I'm just starting to research the train from Rome to Venice and thought the Frecciarrosa trains were direct to  S Lucia station?  I'm finding the Trenitalia website a little confusing.

 

 

 

 

 

Also we solved the bridge / luggage. Issue.   We book a hotel with a dock !  Private water taxi.   Live large! 

[ninjacat123]

Then we cleaned up and cruised the Grand Canal on a vaparetto!! Sorry it’s sideways 

[ninjacat123]

The Grand Canal was grand😁

[ninjacat123]

St Marks at sunset was beautiful!

[ninjacat123]

We decided to have some more nibbles and drinks at a restaurant on the square. Musicians were playing jazzy renditions of contemporary songs. People danced and there was much rejoicing😁💃🏻🕺sorry for the upside down pic

[ninjacat123]

The lights came on around the square and everyone cheered 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[ninjacat123]

We walked to I Musici Veneziani and watched a wonderful performance of musicians and opera singers in Renaissance costumes!

[ninjacat123]

When they called intermission, we looked at each other. We had been enjoying it but nodding off intermittently. We snuck out and made our way home, seeing one of Intrepid’s favorite restaurants.

[ninjacat123]

We changed into jammies and had a last glass of wine in the enclosed patio off our bedroom.

[ninjacat123]

On our way to Florence!! We made our way back over 3 bridges (felt like 14 bridges yesterday) and got to the train station. I had purchased tickets from home, then self check in, then showed the conductor my QR code. I had selected seats which you need to for La Freccia trains. We loved Venice and are looking forward to spending more time there❣️

[pe4all]

13 hours ago, carsastic said:

Also we solved the bridge / luggage. Issue.   We book a hotel with a dock !  Private water taxi.   Live large! 

Same - we used hotel Canal Grande.  Smartest thing we ever did.  And they transported us to the NCL dock also.  

[IntrepidFromDC]

1 hour ago, ninjacat123 said:

When they called intermission, we looked at each other. We had been enjoying it but nodding off intermittently. We snuck out and made our way home, seeing one of Intrepid’s favorite restaurants.

Just say YES YES to NoNo!  Did you have the bowl of clams in broth? Pizze?  Do tell!

[ninjacat123]

1 hour ago, IntrepidFromDC said:

Just say YES YES to NoNo!  Did you have the bowl of clams in broth? Pizze?  Do tell!

We had already eaten and like the Walking Dead, so tired so NoNo will be next time. It was hopping at 9:45 last night!

[ninjacat123]

Arrived in Florence!! Had a lovely chat with a couple from NZ traveling by train all over Europe. Made us think about NZ travel. Then we chatted with a woman from Ireland. Now Ireland is on our list 😁

[ninjacat123]

Walked (trudged) from train station to B&B. 25 minutes later, we are waiting to get in. None of the doorbells are responding. Finally a woman exits and we trundle in. Took teeny elevator to the fourth floor to the B&B.

[carsastic]

3 hours ago, pe4all said:

Same - we used hotel Canal Grande.  Smartest thing we ever did.  And they transported us to the NCL dock also.  

My go to in Venice is the Baglioni Luna .. 

[carsastic]

Wonderful pics .. thank you 

[ninjacat123]

Walked to the Accademia Gallery. We had tickets with a 2:00-2:15 entry time and thank goodness I took care of that. There was a super long line but we walked through in five minutes. Walked around David (that boy has big hands), checked out more art and then we were hangry. So we stopped at a sidewalk cafe. Yum!!

 

[Ciaranaman]

5 hours ago, ninjacat123 said:

We changed into jammies and had a last glass of wine in the enclosed patio off our bedroom.

What a beautiful setting to end what looks like a perfect Italian day!

~Bernadette