Venice is one of my favorite places to visit in Italy and like most people going on holiday, I have to admit that seem to be always in a hurry to see how many sites can I. To do this we lose much of what is happening around Venice and not have the chance to see many of the streets back. This is much easier to do in Venice than other major cities in Italy because of all the canals of Venice and our desire to take the waterbus to see the sites. While in other cities we will look at a map and see what we see in a short distance until we are able to see the streets in our journey to the site.
Our last full day in Venice wanted to spend about half a day looking for glass in Murano and planned on walking a bit and see some of the back streets that were close to our hotel. This would have been a good plan, but just having a day much better because when we got the water bus stop that we found were on strike. There were, however, a location that was still running service to Murano and was about three-quarters of a mile away. It just would have been half a mile away, but had walked about a quarter of a mile to the nearest station the route of Murano.
We had walked down the street San Leonardo River Tear in the direction of the train station the day before and was our first time going in another direction. We had about an hour and a half before the waterbus was leaving the station that we needed to get to so we had plenty of time to get there. Walking to the bus stop of water was a great joy, as we have a chance to see places that we would never have seen the water bus had not been on strike. As we were walking, we took note of the places we wanted to spend time on our journey of return and other places that took time to look at because we wanted to watch the artists and artisans doing restoration work.
We also looked at down the intersections in our way to see if there was something interesting to look at our walk back. Because we didn't plan this walk to the water bus stop I did not have a map to look for to know where we were and where we were going well we would walk a few blocks and ask for directions. We had written the name of the place that we needed to go and we never found an issue for directions as we walked once all that we asked were very pleasant and people who don't speak English would pick someone who did to help us.
After zigzagging around a little more finely we arrived where we needed to be and took the waterbus for where we spent nearly 4 hours watching glass Blowers working its magic blowing glass and looking at the finished product in many of the shops selling Murano glass. After we returned to Venice and was the first who wanted to see in our walk back that was a wonderful Church just about a block from the waterbus station. Another place we wanted to see was a pleasant little square that come our way to the water bus stop, but once we were doing a lot of zigzagging I had no idea how to get there.
As it turned out somehow we find our way back to the square, which had some interesting shops to see we found an elegant little pet store where we buy our dogs souvenirs. Yes, I know who is buying your memories of dogs, but it wasn't as much buying them something but seeing what we bought them that reminds us of our trip. As we returned to the hotel, check-out many of the side streets to find many unique shops selling many things tidy. Since it was getting late wanted to return to the hotel and go out for dinner, but we found a great place to eat in our walk back so we ate at path and walked back to the hotel where we all ready to leave the next day. I have to admit that I was a little upset earlier in the day when we discovered the waterbus company was on strike, but at the end of the day I was glad that they were.
Walking the streets on the way to the water bus station and back we saw many stores stowed, churches and interesting buildings in General that would have seen only tourists staying in hotels in this area. Sometimes things unplanned can be a great thing and I know that is hard to do, but I recommend if you have time to just take a walk to see everything there is to see.
