We walked from there to San Marco. It being Venice, I was compelled to take pictures of canals and absurdly small streets.
Of course, there are many more of those pictures, but I'll spare you for the moment. Anyway, we made it to San Marco without getting lost. The basilica is beautiful.
There were a lot of pigeons. Unlike some people, Debbie and I know that they're basically rats with wings, so we opted not to let them climb on us.
We went into San Marco Basilica. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take pictures inside, but we could take pictures from the upper level.
That's the Piazzetta San Marco in the background, with the statues of the Lion of St. Mark and St. Theodore.
Also, the Bridge of Sighs.
We then walked up the Marzarie, which is basically a long shopping area, to the Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge). Debbie tells me that the bridge is in at least one of Shakespeare's plays (The Merchant of Venice). Of course, I'm just a simple engineer, so I know nothing of these things.
That's the view from the bridge. Here's a view of the bridge.
Dinner was, at least as of Thursday, our best meal so far in the trip. I let the waiter recommend a glass of wine, which turned out to be excellent. He also suggested the homemade tiramisu for dessert, which was spectacular.
The restaurant we went to is recommended by at least two guidebooks (Lonely Planet and Time Out), so there were a number of tourists in it. That actually wasn't so bad - we've actually been appreciating the increased diversity of tourists since we got to Venice. Rovinj had kind of a surplus of Germans. We particularly appreciate that there are more than 3 Asians in the whole town (we saw 4 the whole time in Rovinj). Being instantly memorable as the interracial couple is slightly fun (the memorable part), but a bit annoying as well.
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