Babymoon to Venice - Part 1

And we're off! Our trip to Venice was by train, 7.5 hours to be exact, with a change over in Milan. Very easy to maneuver and relaxing to just ride along. It also gave me time to chug a liter of water with a bathroom close by too. I wanted to stay hydrated as much as a I could before we were walking around. Once you arrive in Venice, you exit the train station and right in front is the main canal. Then of course you go back inside and figure out where to buy a ticket for the Vaparetto, their version of a metro. We found our tickets and found our correct boat. We rode over to the stop closest to our apartment and were met there by the owner, Sabina. She walked us to our apartment and gave us lots of tips on Venice.

Our apartment, a one bedroom place with a bathroom to the left.

 We left to walk around our neighborhood and found one of the places recommended by food network, Antica Forna. It's a take away pizza place that was really good.

Antica Forna

Our pizza slices

We weren't sure on the weather but it possibly would rain about half the time we were there so we decided to walk across the Rialto Bridge and over to St. Marks Square to get pictures with the sun shining.

The view from Rialto Bridge on our walk towards St. Marks

St. Mark's Square

The Doge's Palace

Sitting by the water looking at the Gondola's and an island across the way

The long line of gondola's out and about

This is the armory...Adam loves his guns!!

We found one restaurant that we wanted to eat at, but it was closed until 7:30, so we thought. So we went around the corner to get a drink and sit down until it opened. While we were sitting there we got to watch a fun game of cat and mouse with the venice police and those illegal purse salesmen. Each were hiding on opposite sides of the piazza waiting for one another to make a move. It was really funny. We headed back to our restaurant only to realize it wasn't open on thursday, bummer!

The view from Rialto Bridge on our walk back to our apartment

So we headed back to our apartment and found another restaurant close by that was recommended to us, Trattoria alla Madonna.  We had a short wait, which was worth it when our dinner started to arrive. I started off with the Pasta with clams and Adam's started was seafood risotto.

Pasta with clams

Seafood Risotto

 Our main dishes were roasted sea bass for me and Cuddle fish cooked in it's own ink and polenta for adam.

My Seabass

Adam's cuddle fish and polenta

We couldn't decide on a dessert so we asked our waiter Ugo which he thought was better. He brought us the Tiramisu and a small piece of the other dessert just to try.

Tiramisu and a small piece of creme cake

After dinner we went home and crashed from exhaustion and full bellies.