Sisterchicks in Gondolas! (2006)
“One From the minute—and I do mean the very minute—that Sue and I exited the Santa Lucia train terminal an unexpected sense of confidence filled me. My journeys during college had taken me all over Europe with only a backpack and a list of the low-priced youth hostels. But I’d never come here, to Venezia, the city that Italy wears proudly like a diamond-studded broach on the cuff of her tall boot.
I led the way down the steps and into the open plaza on the edge of the Grand Canal, feeling like a wayward daughter who had finally come home. Venezia in all her morning glory rushed to greet my senses like a big, fat Italian mama holding out her tawny arms in a welcome.
Sue, however, dipped her chin and gazed at Venice the way one respectfully smiles upon the elderly, not sure whether to sit or to stand in their presence.
“That must be where we buy tickets for the vaporetto,” I said, forging ahead to the ticket booth. Sue let me do the talking as I bought our passage for the floating public... transportation that would take us to the corner of Venice where we would stay for the next week.MoreLess
I led the way down the steps and into the open plaza on the edge of the Grand Canal, feeling like a wayward daughter who had finally come home. Venezia in all her morning glory rushed to greet my senses like a big, fat Italian mama holding out her tawny arms in a welcome.
Sue, however, dipped her chin and gazed at Venice the way one respectfully smiles upon the elderly, not sure whether to sit or to stand in their presence.
“That must be where we buy tickets for the vaporetto,” I said, forging ahead to the ticket booth. Sue let me do the talking as I bought our passage for the floating public... transportation that would take us to the corner of Venice where we would stay for the next week.MoreLess
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