This has been an extraordinary travel year for me. This time last year Nancy and I planned another Tauck cruise as a way to take my mind off upcoming surgery, and deliberately set the date for October 2010 in case I wasn't well enough by spring.
So then Leah and I went to Spain and France for 3 weeks in May, and I went to Transylvania and Austria and Paris in August, and less than six weeks after returning from THAT trip Nancy and I took off for Holland, Venice and a short cruise down the Adriatic on the 23rd of September.
After a busy week in Holland, where we visited with the people who made us so welcome in 2008, we came to Venice a couple of days early, to have time to explore before the tour takes up. I now no longer remember how many times I've been here, but Nancy had never come to Venice, and it's fun to take a first-time visitor to some of my favorite places.
It's raining a bit, but that doesn't matter. There are lots of other visitors, but that doesn't matter either, because no matter how crowded Venice gets, there is always a quiet place just down a side passage.
Tomorrow we join the group for a welcome dinner, and Sunday the land part of the cruise takes off. Meantime, we're enjoying the style & comfort & old-fashioned elegance of the Hotel Danieli (incredibly different from my usual lodgings here - fun to be somewhere really upscale at least once!)
Pictures later, perhaps. Note: the Bellini from the hotel bar is a fine drink - can't believe Harry's Bar would do it any better (and it's farther than we want to walk tonight anyway!)
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I am both so happy for you and a little jealous. Have a great trip!
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