One activity that I like about Italy was walk till I get tired and then rest by taking few scopes of gelato!! We passed by this gelato shop which had the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence so we had to try! We had no idea how long we walked to find those places but it was fun! As we tried to walk back to San Marco, we found this colorful pinkish-red theme square, I couldn’t resist to do a jump haha! Last one we tried so hard to find was this staircase….we tried many times but still couldn’t find where it was!!! If anyone of you know which street or square this is please contact me to let me know!!! Three years ago (we couldn’t remember if I was on the left door or the right door lol!): Our scavenger hunt bought us back a lot of wonderful memories! Next stop, the door arch! We were very lucky to found it by walking around and checking out each back roads! We came across this quiet yellow-themed street: Since we didn’t bought our tripods out with us, we had to ask a tourist passing by to help us to take a photo using my back-up point and shoot camera: We were looking at our wedding photos and tried to find hint on where we were! The first location we found was a back road pier that gave a wonderful view of the Rialto Bridge: Food was a little bit more expensive since it was outdoor but the food was pretty decent for 34.65 euros! I really like the seafood spaghetti sauce!Īfter lunch, we had an idea……to search for the places we had our wedding photos taken three years ago! That time, we hired a local photographer and he bought us through back roads so we had no idea how we get to each place. We were done with the palace and by this time we were hungry! We tried to avoid having lunch around St Mark’s Square as most people warned about tourist traps! We walked and walked until we saw some restaurants outside the square, we were so hungry that we just picked one….Hostaria Galileo. View of the outside on the Bridge of Sighs (that was the prisoners’ last look of the outside world before they went to jail haha!)Ī closer look of the Bridge of Sighs from one of the windows: The hallways here were narrow and kind of dark so watch your step! Then, we followed the sign (the walking route was clearly marked and well planned so don’t worry about not having a map!), we went down to the jail cells. The view of the center court from the 3rd floor: I really like the colored glasses of the windows: There were windows which gave a pretty view of the busy Venice! Then we walked to another section of armors and swords, I saw people snapping photos so I took one too then realized it was still under the no photo zone! Then we saw a sign of no photo allowed inside the palace!!! GRRRRR, I was disappointed again!! The palace was beautiful decorated with lavish painted ceilings and 18th century furniture. We had to wait few minutes for each photo for people to walk away…. The Basilica was under repair so it was covered with scaffold or else it would be a perfect photo! On the 2nd floor, it gave another view of the busy St Mark’s Square from the top. We walked to the 2nd floor to browse around before going in the palace. It was a hot and humid day so visiting museum was a good plan! We walked inside the center court, it was a lot bigger than I thought! We settled down a little bit and went out to the Doge’s Palace which is a few steps away from the hotel! We went straight in with our museum pass, the line for tickets wasn’t too bad though. We called Hotel Danieli to see if our room is available, unfortunately not yet! So we waited and checked out around 11:30, took the ferry shuttle to St Mark’s Square and within few steps, we arrived Hotel Danieli! I have seen pictures of its grand staircase but the moment I walked into the hotel, I was still amazed by it! I love the orchids hanging down made me felt like a floating garden!Ĭheck in was fast and our room was on the other building which we walked through a hallway with windows looked out and see tourists talking photos of our “bridge” LOL! The first thing I like to do when enter in our hotel room is take photos of course! Our room was spacious in terms of Venice central locations, but we preferred our room at the Hotel Gritti Palace, it was more grand. We woke up around 9 am and went down for breakfast then came back up to pack and wait. We liked the quiet side of Giudecca for three days and today we moved back to the tourist side of St Mark’s Square Since the hotel check out time is 12 pm, we didn’t had to rush so we didn’t set any alarm and just wake up whenever.
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