Our Arrival in Venice
Here are a few pictures/video of Venice from the lagoon.
Notice the leaning tower, many towers in Venice lean.
The Island of Murano
"Home of the Venetian Glass"
We went to watch some real Murano glass being created.
I was crazy to think that I could afford hand blown glass. All we were able to afford were wine stoppers!
Murano and Burano are only two of thirty-two inhabited Islands in the Lagoon.
The Island of Burano
"Home of Venetian Lace"
What a beautiful Island. The brightly colored houses make great pictures. We were told that the houses were painted like this because when fishermen came home they couldn't tell which house was theirs through the fog, so they painted them so they could pick them out.
If I thought the glass was expensive, the hand-made lace is really expensive. I watched a very old woman making it - it's worth the money, it would take her 8hrs/day for 4 months to make a tablecloth, and it would cost about 15K.
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