Travel blog

Dateline June 1, 2016, Venice

Venice was the start of our first trip to Italy, and the start of a happy lesson: order the house red, it is always excellent. We ducked our way through a rustic little flat with five-foot doorways, talked ourselves out of an eighty-euro gondola ride, got turned away from Hemingway's Harry's Bar for John's shorts, and were serenaded at five in the morning by an opera singer under our window. St. Mark's Square was every bit as magnificent as promised.