Family time!

Monday 13 August 2018

Up at 4:30am this morning for our early morning flight. Lucky for us our hotel starts serving breakfast early so we got to eat before we did our 15 minute walk to the airport. Super easy bag drop and security, Toulouse airport is very efficient. The flight before ours had police officers rechecking everyone’s passports and questioning people as they went on board, very intense! We didn’t have anyone for ours so we got lucky. Smooth flight and we were in the front row with lots of legroom, we would definitely fly with Volotea again!

Arrived in Venice 20 minutes before our expected arrival time and had made it to Gill and Nick’s by 10am. It was really nice to see them and Marty and they fed me second breakfast while we chatted. Gill booked us into the great rooftop terrace she took me up to last time I was here and we headed up with her and Marty at 11:30am after having a sneaky look in a palace open for a free art exhibition. Great views once again of lovely Venezia!

Collected up some lunch gear before heading back to the apartment. We had what mum calls a ‘typical Gill and Nick lunch’, which is basically a delicious spread of heaps of fresh produce and delicious leftovers. Today it was bread, tommy tomatoes, lettuce, olives, eggplant, roasted vegetables, two types of cheese (one was your favourite Da), three different types of olive oil and freshly squeezed orange juice. Yum yum yum!!

After lunch we headed out to do some glass shopping and have a gelato. Lovely glass as always, we love shopping in Venice! We got the keys to our apartment (below Gill and Nick’s) at 4pm and settled  in and did some washing.

Out for spritzers on the canal and we made it to the seafood restaurant before the enormous thundestorm hit. Massive winds and rain but they managed to seat us inside for lovely fresh alfresco platters and wine. A lovely night with the family!