I got the wrong vaporetto this morning, I was going to get the traghetto one stop to the Guggenheim Museum - it is on the other side of the canal so one ferry stop is much quicker than me walking around to the museum. However ... the number 2 vaporetto this morning took the long way around the back of venice to an area I wouldn't have normally seen, so it didn't matter. That took almost an hour to get to the train station. Still didn't matter, I went to the station and got my train ticket to Perguia for Wednesday, then I was hungry so went looking for something to eat amongst the gazillion of tourists that had arrived this morning so did a U turn and went over the bridge and back into the area I stayed in three years ago, walked through there, then found myself (don't know how) in Dorsoduro which is the Guggenheim Museum area.
I found a 'snack bar' so bought a vegetarian roll and sat on the side of a canal and ate that, then found my way to the museum. I walked around there for an hour or so - some weird stuff there and some good stuff too. My favourite was her grave and next to it was the grave of all her dogs.Then I got the vaporetto back to San Marco amongst the hoards, saw the beggar from yesterday working the same bridge, and have come back to my room to download photos and facebook stuff etc and have a cuppa etc.
I have booked myself in to a Murders and Mysteries of Venice tour that starts at 7.50 in San Marco and goes for 1.5 hours and finishes at Rialto around 9.30. I might wear a nappy and hold someone's hand while I'm on this tour! I just hope I can find my way back to the nunnery before lock-out at 10.30. Fingers crossed!
PS I don't know anything about George Clooney - today everyone has been asking me on facebook etc about it, I'm not getting any news here because no tv in the nunnery. Venice isn't very big but I doubt very much that George Clooney and his gang are hanging out in any of the places I am!!
Just back from the tour - yes, I did a tour. It was a Murders and Mysteries of Venice tour. It went for an hour and a half and was ok, but hardly covered anything they advertise. Still, it was ok, and I'm going to have a look on the internet about some of the stuff the chick was talking about. When I first got to the meeting spot there was one couple there but then the rest turned up, there was about 18 of us and one was the biggest aussie dork ever, I was embarrased but then luckily they thought I was a pom so that was ok. I often get mistaken for a pom, must be the huge plum in my mouth.
Anyway, the tour went around the back laneways and alleyways and at one point I thought "If you think I'm going down there after what you just told us ..." But we didnt go down that little skinny, one-person-wide calle, we went down the next calle that was two-person-wide.
It was interesting in places so am glad I went, and gave me something to do tonight.
I have decided to go to mass at San Giorgio tomorrow morning, so will get the vaporetto over there about 10 have a look around then go to mass, mostly because the monks do gregorian chanting and think that would be interesting to see. (Before I sent this email and load this on my blog I will definitely check the spelling!).
Before the tour I went and checked out the times for the vaporetto to the station for Wednesday, and while I was walking through San Marco and over the bloody bridges I thought there HAS to be an easier way. Well, there is and I found both it and a place to have a drink and it was a lovely little place so might just go back there after church tomorrow.
That's it for now, I'm downstairs in the kitchen - the only place in the nunnery that the wifi works and it's lockup time and people are coming home and I can hear some kid whinging. I am sooooooo over hearing whinging kids!!
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