Do you believe in love at first sight?
Me and Venice. Sorry Berlin. I walked out of the Santa Lucia train station and I saw the Grand Canal...I saw the boats...I didn’t need to see anything else: I was in love.
How on earth were we not going to come here? We had booked a two night stay in Venice for our 5th wedding anniversary, then we heard from so many different people how disappointing Venice was. They made it sound so underwhelming and not worth going out of our way to visit. So we canceled. We canceled!!! It was the only thing on the trip so far that we have canceled. Then, when we decided we needed to go to Croatia for our 3 week Schengen-hiatus….it was natural to stop in Venice before we take the bus out of the Italia.
I’ve only been in Venice for a few hours but it has been blog-worthy. Jake said it best: you see Venice on TV, you see it in pictures, but not until you are here can you truly believe how incredible it is. This is a city with no cars. The roads are canals and the transport are boats. Seriously, it feels like there are no streets, only canals and alleys and I absolutely freaking-love it.
I’m tired and need to get my beauty rest because we are going to the Venice Film Festival tomorrow…so I owe more to this blog topic later! I was able to get us tickets to see Spotlight…a film that is being released this winter staring Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo. We aren’t going to the premiere, just a viewing. Of course I'm secretly hoping that the actors will be there. That being said…the premiere of Black Mass with Johnny Depp is happening tomorrow night so in the morning I am going to do research on whether or not we can somehow get near the red carpet for that.
Oh, by the way, I spotted Josh Brolin tonight on a water taxi! His new film Everest opened the festival last night. I'm not celebrity crazy but I LOVE celebrity sightings!
Jesslyn
