The streets of Venice

    We are back in Venice, seeing a different side to the tour, look at all the people in the street, it is so  

    busy with so many little shops and cafés.

   One of the shops with cakes, mama Mia!

    Some more food 

   

    So many people

    The beautiful streets

   You just can't stop taking photos!

   Looking down another street

   The square

    Looking across to the Basillica

   One of the restaurants in the square

   The museum ceiling

    Looking down the corridor

   The ceiling

    The stairs going in

    Going into the museum

   Looking across St Marks Square

    One point where you can get on a gondola, the best western hotel.

   A gondola coming under one of the bridges

    The Norwegian choir in the street near St Marks 

   One of the tiny colourful canals

   Looking across from another bridge

    Just looking down one of the maany canals, looking from one of the many bridges

   Look at the size of the pizza!

   We are sitting on the canal for drinks at our hotel, wow!

Train to Venice

   We left the sheraton hotel this morning for the train station in Rome, which is forty minutes away.

   We board our train at 11.50 and nearly had our luggage stolen by gypsies! We were getting on the  

   train and a there was one on the carriage as we were getting on and another behind, the one on the  

   platform grabbed one of our cases and we managed to save it!!

    We are now on the train and travelling at 248 kilometres, this is some of the beautiful views.

   We are arriving in Venice at three thirty this afternoon.

Back in rome

   We went to our farewell dinner in Rome, they serve all their meals like this, we have an antipasta, then an entree and main and finally dessert.

   Joe and Vic from our tour

   Rae, Nicole and Karen 

   After dinner we returned to the hotel for final farewell drinks

   We had a lovely time, tomorrow we leave Rome by train for Venice where we will spend two nights

Siena

After leaving Florence, I have accidentally deleted my photos so I will have to post these photos when I receive copies from our tour friends, we travelled two hours to reach Siena for a coffe break and try some of their special pastries and biscuits.

The old arch entrance

   Psychiatric hospital 

   Very hilly in Siena, with quaint little shops

   These little cars are allowed to be driven by fourteen year olds!!

   The streets are really only wide enough for a single car

   Romulus and Remus 

   The huge tower in the square which you can climb, it has over four hundred steps

   These are everywhere in the town, it's where they used to tie their horses up.

   This is the city square, which is huge.

   Another church

   Better view of the tower

   This is the postie's cute little car

   Back in the bus and heading to Rome

   Beautiful Tuscan country side

   Beautiful little towns everywhere, we will be in Rome by three thirty, about another two and a half hours where will be having our farewell dinner.