Day 1 in Venice, Continued

The pictures do not do this Water City justice. It's so magical. This is the view from the top of the Rialto bridge.

Here's more scenery. As I look back on these, I guess it did rain all day. But I was not focused on that at all. Look at this floor! Look at the art behind the altar. Every detail matters. I sometimes got overwhelmed thinking about how long it must have taken someone or a group of someones to create these masterpieces, and that they were made so divinely that I could still enjoy them hundreds of years later.

They do try to help the tourists, but you need to look up and know the signs are there.

In Italy in general, when you order drinks they bring snacks. I like this idea, grin. This drink is an italian favorite and almost every table had it, in every city we visited. They seem to order them around 4 pm as an apertivo. It's called an Aperol Spritz. It is made with prosecco, bitters, and soda water. When it started raining steadily we grabbed a table under a portico and listened to the live musicians until even they too, had a rain delay. They closed up the curtains but left the piano outside. Yikes!