A great day in Venice

Great tour this morning by water taxi to St Mark's Square and the San Marco waterfront. NO rain and nice and cool. Our tour guide was so entertaining - she was throwing out the funniest zingers! The Murano Glass Factory was beautiful and saw a little demo and then a tour of their showroom! Some of us chose an optional side trip to the island of Burano - this is one of hundreds of islands surrounding Venice. We travelled by boat about 45 minutes on the lagoon and saw the Alps!! Special because it snowed in the mountains overnight. Also saw the airport from distance. Burano is well known for its brightly colored houses so the fisherman could find their way home after fishing or drinking. Lace - while the men fished the women learned to make lace - each lady in the town would perfect one stitch or pattern. Yes I bought some things - u must come at Christmas to see! We had lunch - filled a few tables - all fish dishes risotto with shrimp, pasta with clams, white fish, calamari, fruit, wine, biscuit, fruit and amaretto! It was nice getting to know others on the tour. Walked back over Rialto Bridge and stopped to get special Venetian spritzers along the way - long day but so much fun! Tomorrow is a fee day and then ciao Italia on Wednesday :-(