Day 7: Italo a Venzia

I woke this morning feeling pretty crumby.  I slept for around 8 hours, but felt achey and had a small sore throat.  I was looking forward to a relatively relaxing travel day.

We checked out of the airbnb in Florence at 10am, and Massimo (our driver from our Tuscan day trip) was there to pick us up and haul us to the train station.  With eight people and their luggage, we ended up also taking a cab for overflow.  Once we got to the train station, we looked for the Italo first-class lounge, where we could relax and store our luggage while we waited for our 12.40 train.  D took R on a walkabout in the train station (he loved seeing all the people), S and I went for food/snacks, and Dad made some new friends in the lounge.  

When it was time to board the train, we hauled all of our stuff down the track and got everyone into the first-class car.  We had so much luggage that we needed storage units at both ends of the car AND overhead.  The train ride was peaceful, and we enjoyed watching the landscape change from the sunny hills of Tuscany to the grey skies of Venice.  We snoozed and chatted.

The last section of the train journey to Venice takes you right out over the water.

Once we landed in Venice, we met our boat and putt-putt-putted our way over to the airbnb.

The place we're staying is actually two sides of a duplex, each mostly a mirror image of the other, with a big common room and two decent bedrooms.  Like our Florence place, these places go light on the functional storage.  Dresser with drawers?  Bah!

After settling in, Dad, W, and I took a walk for groceries and cash.  There had been drizzle all day, so the sidewalks were shiny!

Dinner tonight was in the airbnb, provided by Chef Alessandro from TakeAChef.com.  He provided a delicious spread of food, including salmon mousse boats, creamed cod on toast, Venetian sardines with sweet pickled onions, radicchio risotto, and tiramisu.  It was so delicious, but we were so tired from the past few days that we were zonking out at the dinner table.

After dessert, we said our good nights and went next door to go to sleep.  Zzzzzzz