Venice is an incredible city. From the sheer marvel of the city on the water, to the drainage stones that marked where the underground aquaducts collected and funneled rain water. Our hotel receptionist guided us to a lovely all you can eat buffet, where I proceeded to eat all of the mussels I could eat. Venice prices were a little high, an our guidebook told us to just accept that, but the place we went was cheap and included wine.
We saw St. Marks Square and Basillica, the Rialto Bridge, and a half dozen tiny churches. We saw the sun setting off the West bank of the island, and had some incredible tea.
Let me tell you about the tea.
We managed to find the tea shop of a local Venetian who had spent 8 years in Japan. In a little secluded garden I had a Matcha Latte the likes off which I had never thought I'd find outside of Japan. We spoke a little Japanese to the owner, and had the chance to simply enjoy a little bit of time together. We had been missing our tea time from England with our friend Ellie, so this was the perfect place for a send off out of Italy.
This of course continued to reinforce the idea that in Europe we discovered that we really just want to back to Japan.
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