Oops we went to Venice for lunch
Some bullet points of the day today (photos coming soon)
We woke up pretty early on our hotel in Buzet, are our free hotel breakfast, and hit the road north towards Italy.
Border crossing through Slovenia (couple extra passport stamps, that’s exciting)
Booked it the rest of the way to Venice, parked the car on the edge of Town and took train in. Walked around a bit. Canals were beautiful. Gondola drivers. Houses right to the water with doors opening up above the water for boat parking. Cute narrow alleys.
Ate an amazing Italian lunch of wood fired pizza and caprese with the freshest tomato and mozzarella di buffala you’ve ever seen.
We went to the grand canal, looked around a bit, took a few photos and got the hell out of there because it was completely overrun with tourists and cruise boat passengers on their day trip.
Stopped for some gelato and cappuccinos and people watched for a while
Being in Venice, we knew we couldn’t leave without going for a spin around town in a gondola, so we hired a gondolier named William who gave us a lovely paddle through the canals of old town. This will be a memory I will certainly not soon forget.
On the way home, we planned to stop in the town of Prossecco to drink some Prossecco. We couldn’t really find an good restaurants in that little town though so we went just a few miles further to Triste for dinner, where we found a little, local family style restaurant, where Bernadette ordered the largest $8 dish of pasta carbonate I’ve ever seen. Had it been the only thing we ordered I think we still would’ have been able to polish it off. Alyssa and I, of course, ordered more pizza (we just can’t get enough!)