July 29, 2022
Murano and Venice: Photos
Sue and I were up and out early this morning for our day excursion to the island of Murano, famous for it's glass making. We're staying in the town of Tessara, about 2kms or so from the airport. It's not a particularly attractive town. It does have the basics, though; a couple of restaurants, a few hotels, a pharmacy, and our favorite, a donar shop. But, although there is not much going for Tessara, it is a convenient location for our departure tomorrow.
We decided that we would walk to the airport and take a vaporetto into Murano. But, before that, we had to endure an unpleasant walk along the busy road with no sidewalk to get out of Tessara.
Once at the station, we were soon on a boat and zipping our way out into the Venice lagoon highway. I say highway because this is exactly what it was. Imagine an two-laned ocean highway lined with poles that essentially created a lane where all of the boat traffic was required to travel. It was astounding how much vaporetto and private boat traffic there was travelling in both directions. The poles were even topped with lights to guide traffic at night. Sorry, but I was absent minded, and did not get a picture.
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It is our habit to get up early, and we were lucky enough to get Murano all to ourselves for a couple of hours before the masses of other tourist arrived. The island was peaceful, quaint and quiet this morning and we spent our time wandering along it's main canal, and branching off to explore the small neighbourhoods that make up this island. Murano definitely has a different feel than Venice. It's a much smaller island and you get the sense that people actually live here.
As you may well know, Murano is famous for its glass making. Most of the shops that lined the main canal were glass shops selling anything from drinking glasses, to figurines, to glass insects; you name it. Anything that you could make out of glass, you could probably find here. We must admit, though, a lot of it was rather tacky.
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After we had our fill of Murano, we might as well take the opportunity to go into Venice. Although this was not part of our original plan, we thought that since we were here, we might as well. Who knows when we'll be back this way again, right? We successfully negotiated the confusing vaporetto schedule and, once again we were zipping our way across the Venice lagoon towards the infamous Grand Canal. We knew that when we arrived we would be playing the avoid the crowds game again.
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This is our second time in Venice, and what surprised us again, was that if you get away from the busy areas around St. Mark's, you can really find incredible peace and tranquility. We wandered down narrow canals and watched gondoliers effortlessly guide tourists through the maze of waterways. There truly is no other place quite like Venice. We had a lovely pasta lunch, and then it was time to leave, get back to the hotel and get those bikes into boxes. Tomorrow was going to be a long travel day.
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