Monday, April 5, 2010

Venice Trip: Strolling through town

We passed underneath Saint Mark's Clocktower and did some windowing shopping

This store was very crowded

Pretty view

Carnival masks for sale were everywhere

Becca and a friend

Becca is learning the not-so-subtle art of the photobomb.

We didn't bring a stroller for Becca because we had read about what a pain they end up being with all the bridges you need to cross over.

Hmmm, I wonder if the powers that be at this church heard about what happened to the basilica's belltower in 1902.

View of the grand canal

For those of you who have seen the creepy Donald Sutherland thriller Don't Look Now (based on a short story by Daphne DuMaurier, who also wrote Rebecca), we kept our eyes peeled for any little girls in red raincoats as we walked through town.

Amazing street musician who performed Mozart and Bach for us.

We were slowly but surely making our way to a museum. Away from the main tourist squares, the lanes were quiet. And quiet as in with no cars, it's really, really quiet. Venice is Europe's largest urban car free area.

Typical Venetian street

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