Venice

Buon giorno/Hello

We are now in Italy and the main language is Italian.
(per favore - please, gratzie - thank you, si - yes, no - no, prego - you're welcome)

We are in Venice in Italy. Venice is a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and joined together by bridges.

There are no cars on Venice. Instead of using cars, people walk or they use small boats. We caught a ferry to go from where we were staying to the main island. It was amazing. The Grand Canal (the main canal in Venice) looked like our highways, full of dinghies, ferries and gondole (gondolas).

The main island in Venice is called San Marco. San Marco has a large square full of buildings that are very beautiful.

Venice is famous for masks 

One of the islands, Murano, is famous for the special things they create from glass. They have shops all over Venice that sell Murano glass figurines, jewellery and vases. They are very nice. 

Matthew bought a glass tiger. I liked this one, but it was too big to bring home.

Arrivederci/Good bye