Some friends of ours from back when Jeff was in school in Troy, Alabama are stationed in England and made a long weekend trip to Venice, just after we arrived in Italy. We decided to meet them for a day trip. We took the train from Ferrara to Venice that morning. Here is Emily on the train to Venice.
It was great to be able to take the train, since parking most places in Italy is hard to find and/or expensive. The train is also cheap! It was only 30 Euro for all 3 of us round trip. It took about an hour and a half to get from Ferrara to Venice, and Bill and Laura met us at the station. We walked around for a little while and found something to eat before going to the famous Piazza San Marco. On the way, we did see the Rialto Bridge, as pictured below.
Here we are in front of the Basilica San Marco.
We found a traghetto, which is the poor man's version of the gondola. A ride on one of the famous gondolas, with the gondolier in his striped shirt, and velvet cushions on the seat costs about 80 Euro. The traghetto, which is the same type of boat, but without the fancy appointments, and they fit as many people on board as possible, costs 1 Euro per person for a ride straight across the canal. Here are Jeff, Emily, Bill and Laura, ready to get on board.
Here are Jeff and Emily in the middle of the grand canal on our ride.
We had a very nice day walking around, looking, and taking pictures. There were lots of nice views to see. We even had gelato (the Italian version of ice cream, which is wonderful!) twice!
Here are a couple more good pictures we got.
It was a very nice day, though we were very tired by the time we got back to Ferrara. For more pictures, check out my album on Facebook.
2 comments:
Your pictures a great and the scenery is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I am so glad to hear you have reliable internet, finally. Let the communication begin!
Looks like you are enjoying Italy. Grandma looked at the blog today after the winery lunch. Hope your Italian lessons are helping.
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