Visitors in Verona and Venice

We've just had a great long weekend with Michael & Bronwyn

12.05.2007 - 14.05.2007 23 °C
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My brother Michael and his wife Bronwyn were our first Veronese visitors. It was so great to have some company to speak English with and to explore a bit more of the country with. Their visit involved a lot of eating…

and drinking

and being silly.

This statue in Verona is of a famous geographer holding a globe (geography ball as Simon called it) and supposedly the first honest person to walk under the statue will have the globe fall on their head. Simon thought it best to carry an umbrella for safety.

We headed off for a day and a night in Venice with Michael and Bronwyn and were lucky to have some amazing sunny weather after half a week of rain.

We had plenty of warnings “Venice will be a nightmare for a wheelchair”, “don’t even bother going”… I think because of this perception the tourist info centre is really geared up for it, we picked up a map highlighting in green all the areas that are supposedly accessible (which is about ½ the island).

Unfortunately all the bridges that have lifts require keys which were either nowhere to be found, or didn’t work at all, but it didn’t really matter because we could see so much from the boats and the area around St Mark’s square which kept us busy enough!

What is the deal with people wanting pigeons all over them? They were actually putting bird seed in their hair so the birds would pick it out. Ewww. Helen you’d love it.

We also had more amazing meals, including lunch at this restaurant where the waiters filleted the fish in front of us, pretty bizarre but the food was delicious.

OK so here is the 17 week belly shot. I think this shot makes it look smaller than it really is, because I’m now at the point of no return on buttoning up my jeans. Have also started to feel some movement going on in there, and of course our afternoon in Venice I must have managed to visit (and pay for) every public toilet there was, with my sudden urgency to go every hour or so! Simon’s sympathetic belly is coming along nicely also.

We have had a request for more photos of us (and I think less of buildings) - I wholeheartedly agree having seen many photos of buildings and found them less than exciting. So this was our first attempt...

Hopefully we can improve on the excitement level of the photos... If I can just stop Simon taking the camera to try and take photos of buildings every few minutes...