Venice

We are just getting back from a nice 4 day trip to Venice. Aubrey, who has somehow picked up an annoying French accent, is correcting me... if you account for train travel, we only had 3 full days in Venice! Anyway it was a wonderful trip.




We had read up a bit and knew to expect some wondeful sights, yet we were still amazed at the beauty around us. Art in every sense of the word. Museums, buildings, churches, glass, sculptures, windows....

I was most taken by the sense of impending loss....beautiful expensive buildings, built to last forever, with water a foot over the original ground level floor...Such a contrast.

We also visited, Lido di Venezia, a 6-mile (10 km)-long, slender island just a 15-minute boat ride away from St Mark's Square. Couldn't resist dipping our toes in the very cold Adriatic sea...

We took the Cisalpino train back to Lausanne. Very fast and comfy though a long ride. We arrived in Lausanne close to midnight in a good winter storm. When we hit our final stop, it was sleeting badly and none of us were up for the 1 mile treck home. Fortunately, a simple cell phone call activated one of our 3000 'car-share' vehicles parked across the street and we drove in comfort back home.