Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Italy: Venice


I just got back from a one-week trip through Venice, Rome, and Florence! I'm going to share the photos from each city in the order we visited them. First was Venice!

Venice was probably my favorite city of the three, because it was so beautiful! Every direction you turned looked like a postcard. We met up with our friends Axton and Lesley who've been living in England this past year, and spent two days there.





The highlight of the city was San Marco Piazza. The basilica was beautiful and difficult to capture in photos, partly due to the ton of tourists in the square! The whole city is basically a ton of alleyways, which makes it really difficult to find your way around, so it took us a while to find it the first time. Also it mostly didn't smell bad, so idk about that rumor!





The second day we took a boat tour around to some of the smaller islands. We saw the glass blowing at Murano, which was really amazing. Then we visited Torcello, which was small and quiet and had this beautiful church full of Byzantine mosaics, like floor to ceiling gold leaf. We weren't allowed to take photos, though! We saw Burano, which is famous for it's candy colored houses, lace work, and cookies. It was also my total favorite place, and I got a few photos there!






We spent the rest of the time walking around exploring, looking at shops, drinking coffee (cappucinos for me), and eating lots of gelato and pizza! I will never get sick of gelato and pizza, tbh. Follow my Instagram for more pics of Italy, and keep an eye out for my post on Rome!

10 comments:

  1. It looks pretty there;) Hope you've had a great time and wish you a wonderful rest of this week as well a great weekend!

    Yours,
    NIKA Bittner

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  2. looks fun! i love candy colored houses.
    xoxo
    e
    the little diary

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  3. The candy colored buildings are SO pretty! I am spending a few days in Venice on October and seriously cannot wait! Enjoy the rest of your trip!
    xoxo

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  4. Such a beautiful, romantic place! *envy* Have fun! Gelato and pizza for the fucking win!

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  5. Venice is such a beautiful and quiet city (having no cars is so great). Great pics!

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  6. With your white blouse you look like Audrey Hepburn from Roman Holiday (fitting, eh!)

    Venice looks so pretty! We went with my father's photography class when I was in high school and there were several adult students too. We'd arrive at night, with fog and a woman turned to me as we weaved through the streets to say, "Venice- a city so fantastical they could not build it on land!" which always stuck with me. So glad you had such an amazing trip!

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  7. just strolling around exploring is always our favorite thing to do in new places. you look darling in both of those outfits, and i esp love the last pic of you. Venice has always been on my husband's "to visit" list so i'm hoping someday we get to make it there.

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  8. Venice is one of my favourite places! It's so picturesque!

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