This is our photoblog as we travel from Venice up to Bern for two weeks in June/July 2009. We'll try to post every day depending on internet access availability. Thanks for following us, Karen and Jake

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Sunday, July 5, 2009

A Day in Venice

View from water taxi on the way to Murano. It was free to go and see, oh my...was everything expensive there!! Still, we got to get out on the water.
Murano
Doge's Palace from the Vaperetto back to Venice
Basilica San Marco


Piazza San Marco
Masks for sale everywhere
On a gondola ride
Gondolier maybe organizing the next fare

Another gondolier at work
Gorgeous wooden boats serve as taxis
Accademia Bridge
At the top of the Accademia bridge

View from the Accademia Bridge
Obligatory seagull on a pole
Beautiful flowers in a beautiful window
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Washing day. Not on they typical tourist route.
We spend a few hours in Campo Santa Margherita just hanging out with the locals. Here are a few shots from that time.

Sunday afternoon outing
Self serve cigarettes
Backpacker resting
Local boy playing soccer
Young love
Three little princesses
A canal in the evening
Parked up for the night
The Grand Canal at night

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