Magical First Day in Venice

My cousin and I reached Venice this morning, a gorgeous city beyond words.

Pesaro Palace Venice

After getting help to lift the kitchen sink luggage onto the canal-side hotel, we checked in to the Pesaro Palace. Stepping inside the hotel room felt like stepping inside a palace—a Venice palace, if I may say so.

We then roamed around the city.

We stopped to watch the Opera in a small theatre where I was served my first ever Belize-and then the second and the third).

We walked around the thousands of canals and took thousands of pictures. We tried on masks and almost bought beautiful Murano glass.

We sat on the semi-flooded Marcopolo piazza. We went inside St Maria cathedral, where I got misty-eyed. Such a sacred place.

In the evening, we rode the gondola.

Trattoria Da Gianni Venice

We then had a seafood dinner and a copious amount of wine in a small restaurant by the canal called Trattoria Da Gianni. It was one of the best seafood meals of my life.

I am glad we got to visit it before (as I read) it sinks. But I keep my fingers crossed that I’ll always stay afloat because Venice is magical.

We will spend another day here before leaving for the historical Rome. I can’t wait to keep saying “When in Rome…” every five minutes to my cousin.

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