Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Venice with my husband

On the tour between Italy and Greece it was an extraordinary trip. As the tour bus finally got us to travel Venice, Rome and Florence, the Italian part of the trip, I was particularly interested in all the fantastic food choices we would be given. It came with 12 breakfasts, 12 hotel stays and I got to say this part of the trip is my favourite. Food is like an art and I am very excited to share it with you. We also admired historic churches, winding canals in Venice to start, and picture perfect piazzas in Venice, known as the queen of the Adriatic seas. As you can see we had ample time to complete our tour when my husband had joined me the last 7 days of the trip as I discussed already the owner of where I was staying, extended our stay another 5 days. As my husband and I were talking about our trip and what we most looked forward to, he said he would like to see all the ancient buildings and immediately I thought of the churches. “The St. Marks Basilica has very religious and public life significance. Many people mainly tourists come to view its splendour. It is also a testament to the wealth and power of the serene Republic of Venice,” I said to him! “What are you looking forward to doing Sandra?” “Probably the food. But I would start with the wineries. I love picking from the vines and gathering them to be crushed and finally made into wine.” "Honey, that’s so plain, everybody knows about that. What about the magnificent hills and valleys known to Italy?" "John, thats my favourite, what can I say? I love the process, I love transferring and using and modifying things into different stages as you can do with the making of wine. It’s not about the finished product for me, like wine and structures that you love (churches) and seeing a suberbly made pizza in its final stage. In my mind, what is most important is the steps, gathering the sauce, the cheese, the pepperoni that creates the final product, know what I mean?" Honey we can get pizza and wine at home, but to see architecture, made from years ago, especially with the Basilica which we saw first online with its beautiful half-circle formation on its top and its beautiful white color that surrounds it all over." "I get your point but I cherish things that are new to me, things I’ve never learnt. How am I suppose to take home a castle looking church, I never will and that make seeing it even more profound because I can not take it home. You can take home your fresh Italian wine and well a pizza, they’re all the same thus making it not so important. The history of the church, their wealth, their people, are all represented in that building; the people that made it, the hands that crafted it, the leaders that it is based on, are all very significant things!" said her husband!

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