We slept in this morning, catching up on some much needed rest. Around 9:20 am, we experienced an earthquake (5.8 on the Richter scale), the second significant one in Italy in two weeks. The crystal chandelier in our room contined to sway for five minutes. An aftershock was felt some 60 minutes later. We were told by the comcierge at 1:00 pm that 10 people were killed in Modense, a town about 90 minutes west and north of Venice.
Our day was spent travelling by vaporetto to the island of Burano, out i the northern part of the Venetian lagoon. Burano is famed as a fishing village and its lace, which is the reason we came. Andrea loved the lace museum! About 8 elderly woman were making lace work in the museum, which is no longer an industry as it once was, but a craft still practiced by many women on the island. After the museum, Andrea spent a lot of time shopping, and in Lydia's, she bought a piece of antique lace from the early 1800s. We also bought a handmade lace tablecloth, which I hope will become a family heirloom.
The purchase was in lieu of a gondola ride, which while far less expensive than the gondodla ride, is tactile and will last much longer.
We strolled the picturesque island of some 3,000 inhabitants and settled on a restaurant on Via Gallupi, the main street. I had mussels steamed in garlic and lemon and fried calamari. Andrea had a cheese plate (the parmesan and some kind of blue cheese were great) and a lasagne. Some house red wine with dinner was followed by lemon ciello before we caught the boat-bus back to Venice (which is where I am writing this on the stern of the boat, watching the foamy wake behind me.
Below are some more photos from today (maybe, this darned computer...)
PS - Andrea wins! She beat me back to the hotel, which is a good thing, because by the time we both returned at 10:00 p.m., a huge thunder, lightning and rain storm hit. It is beautiful looking out at it on the Grand Canal.
PPS - This may be the last blog posting for several days, because we check out tomorrow and take the overnight train to Paris, arriving there Thursday morning.
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| On the vaporetto to Burano |
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| One of Andrea's favorites at the lace museum |
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| Lace work ladies at the museum |
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| She is 96 years young and still stitching |
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| Merletto means lace |
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| Beautiful Burano |
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| Very picturesque |
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| Typical house. Andrea loved the color. |
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| For Vixen, per Andrea |
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| Mean ol' Mr. Wilson |
2 comments:
How beautiful. Sounds redundant I know but it really is. I saw a piece on this lace museum on one of the Sun AM programs . Your lace puchases sound fab. Glad you are safe from the earthquake. Paris ah!!! Love the mother
Glad you guys are okay/safe from the earthquake! That is really sad though about those people dying and not too far from you guys :(
Also, woot! Lace tablecloth family heirloom! Sounds beautiful, take a picture of it!
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