Now I'm back, and here's my report...
I admit I haven't been blogging. First it was because I have no internet access when I first arrived in Venice. Then I got too occupied and too tired every evening when I got back to the hotel. So I got calls from people asking about what happened? "Have you written anything yet?" "What? Still nothing?" ...etc.
So here I am...
Day 1
We first landed in Venice, spent one night there, and then off to Pisa and Siena the next day. Before I went, so many people told me about how charming and romantic Venice could be, hmmm...didn't quite find it the first day I was there. The food didn't impress me neither. Therefore I decided I would give it a second chance and planned to be back for couple nights before I flew back out to the States.
Viv and I were starved when we arrived, therefore we weren't too picky and just walked into a restaurant with a decent menu-Ristorante Gondola. What surprise me was the server didn't speak much English, and the wine list was just wine without the name of the wineries or vintages. Food wasn't what I expected neither. We decided just to order some appetitizers to start, tried the food first before ordering more. Good idea! After the three appetitizers, we were ready to take the bill.
The cured meat was alright, nothing "wow" me as I usually like to say. The cheese was generous, but again nothing special and the server couldn't even tell us what were we having. Then the mussels, I thought they cooked with the sea water! It was so salty! Though the mussel itself tasted fresh, the sauce they cooked with just really bad! So we were ready for our gelato hunt!
After all these days, I must say the best gelato I tasted was in Venice, called Nuova ca' d'oro! Definitely the best! The pastachio that I had there was real pastachio! This is definitely the place!!
We also stopped at a place at Piazza San Marco for coffee and dessert. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the place, it's right across from Ristorante Quadri at the piazza though. Nice and comfy to have a break after all the walks around Venice!
All tour books and everybody said the best way to see Venice is to get lost in there. Sure enough, not on purpose, we were sooooooo lost! We were pretty much circling ourselves for more than 2 hours before we finally found our way back to the hotel. We were just glad the bar/cafe right around the corner of our hotel were still open since we really needed that drink! And this was our adventure for the 1st day!
*More pictures on Flickr.