Venice

Venice is one of our favourite European cities and it was great to spend a few days there with Paul and Nikki. We spent all our time wandering from piazza to piazza and riding the canals on the water busses. It is such a photogenic city and despite it being well into the summer season, we did not find it too crowded. There was quite a lot of restoration work going on in Piazza san Marco, and to Nikkis dissappointment the Bridge of Sighs was covered up with scaffolding and advertising. We also spent a day in Padua and travelled along the Brenta Riviera, the area where all the wealthy Venetians built summer palaces.