Loading...Even though I gave Eric a bad time about comparing the palazzo’s to hookers, the more I think about it, the more it fits. Venice used to be a very wealthy state, they used to sell the salt out of the sea all over the world and turned it into 24 carat gold that they stuck on their ceilings. Now they are selling themselves and judging by the amount of people with cameras around their necks walking around out there, they seem to be doing a pretty good job.
Today we saw a lot of gilded things. The Doge palace (seat of government back before there was an Italy). Lots of gold, lots and lots of paintings of Mary and Jesus and Doges. Lots. Then we went over to La Fenice (the opera house). Beautiful but a bit sad as it is all a painstaking reproduction (it burned almost to the ground right before my last visit here 12 years ago). Looking forward to Verona tomorrow but I’m also a bit sad to leave Venice. This is one of those cities that you could spend years in and not experience everything. Eric says you can say that about any city. I say that most cities you don’t want to experience everything.
