Venice! May 21

A busy day today as we purchased a 12 hour Vaporetto pass because we wanted to see some of the other islands.  Cost was about 16 Euro per person.  First stop – Murano, home of the famous Murano Glass Factories.  We wandered around town for a couple of hours visiting shops and shops of Murano Glass …it is truly amazing what they can do with glass from sculpture to necklaces and everything in between.  A nice town but really has little to offer other than shopping.

Glass statue in Murano

From there Karen dragged me to the island of Burano where they are famous for their hand-made lace.  I was worried that the town would be nothing but shop after shop of lace and there are quite a few of those shops, but Burano is a very picturesque town of multi coloured buildings and we quite enjoyed the stop there.

Burano Street

The whole town of Burano is like this

Yes, they still make hand made lace

The vaporetto ride back to San Marco was about 75 minutes, so when we arrived back in Venice we simply grabbed another Vaporetto and headed off to the Jewish quarter, known as the Ghetto.   There’s a bit of history to the area but not too much to see.  So we continued our walk as far the next nice restaurant for a bite to eat and then a Vaporetto ride back to San Marco.  Recommend that people try the ride at night as the view is quite different and very nice.

Nightime along the canal

The tide is high tonight so when we got to Piazza San Marco, many areas are under water as the water tends to seep up through the stone and the drains when it’s high tide.  Interesting.

Flooding at San Marco Piazza