Mr. Fish goes to Venice

    I hope we don’t sleep our vacation (Carlos’ work) away.  Despite our desire to make an early morning of it, we didn’t wake up until almost 9am.  A little breakfast in our kitchenette and off we went.  We had to learn how to make coffee in a European coffee pot. )  We went to the Venice fish market along with the fresh market.  Today has been beautiful, a bright sunny day and very comfortable.  Overall the merchants have been very tolerant of our Spanglish attempt at communication.  Carlos’ attempt to learn Italian is limited to understanding but not speaking.  The Attendant at the hotel told us where to find the local supermarket (again no Piggly Wiggly).  We purchased fix’ns for a caprese salad and some table wine.  That was the fix’ns for our lunch.  So much shopping to do so little time.  We shifted our plans for our Gondola ride to sunset.  Angel is such the romantic.     

Anyone who has known me for a long time knows about “Mr. Fish”. For those of you who don’t know about him let me explain (since you will be seeing  a lot of him).  Mr. Fish is a very small purse I have had for many years.   Mr. Fish has been around the world with me therefore he is a world renowned traveler.  I brought Mr. Fish along with us to Italy, this is his first trip to Italy and he is very excited to be here as you will see in some of our pictures.   Mr. Fish is more of a conversation piece than a functional purse being he is not big enough for anything but a little money and a car key or you can forgo the car key and put a tube of lipstick but he has made many friends along the way.



Mr. Fish at Versace



Never Judge a Book By its Cover:

This is a picture of the outside of our hotel (when we arrived I was wondering what we had gotten into).



Outside of Hotel Ca' Foscolo



This is our hotel room (they call it an apartment  which it is like one.  It even has a clothes washer)



Kitchen area



The staff is very knowledgeable and helpful.  I would stay here again. 

We went on our Gondola ride in the early evening around 7pm.  It was nice, pictures are attached.  Mr. Fish appeared to have a great time, but we had to subdue him just to make sure he did not tip the boat.  (He kept jumping from seat to seat.) 



Mr. Fish on the port side of the gondola



Mr. Fish on rhe starboard side of the gondola



Angel rode the gondola in Vegas at the Venetian and now she really appreciates the international maritime laws for not polluting the ocean and seas, if she had fallen out of the gondola in Vegas she would not have to take 17 million shots to make sure she didn’t catch anything that would kill her.  (Her biggest fear during this ride was tipping over but the gondolier kept telling us “no worries, no worries” easy for him to say, he probably had his shots.)



Life is Good



Dinner:   We went to Ristorante De Mario Alla Fava for dinner, when we arrived they brought us a basket of bread and an amuse-bouche (which was outstanding) one was a puff pastry bite with a crème fresh and chive mixture with a small tomato wedge on top, the other was a puff pastry bite with foie gras topped with a large caper.  We had a very excellent bottle of pinot noir with this meal.  Carlos had for his first course sweet and sour sardines with grilled polenta, now that may not sound appetizing but it was delicious.  For his second course Carlos had potato dumplings with grated ricotta cheese with cinnamon flavor, another tasty dish. For his fish or meat course Carlos chose, Cuttle fish Venetian style with polenta, this dish hardly looked appetizing since the sauce was made with the black ink that the cuttle fish uses to escape the other fish that prey on it. The good news is that it was also very tasty and Carlos was able to get the black ink off his teeth with Colgate and a tooth brush, wheew!!  Angel had cod puree Venetian style with polenta for her fist course that was very tasty, her second course was Spaghetti with clams that was almost as good as I get at Capone’s.  For the fish or meat course she had fried mixed seafood also very yummy.