.......Sonia and just a few of the beautiful and colorful buildings which brighten Venice, along the Grand Canal. The almost identical photo below (of the 3 of us) I actually uploaded by mistake, but on this Blog site, it's impossible to delete an unwanted photo if they're uploaded in a group of other photos altogether in the same moment. To do so would mean ALL the photos in that group get automatically deleted ---such a pain!! Anyway, the picture does show I was getting tired from so many hours of walking, and ready for some FOOD!! See all the heaps of sandwiches and pizza in the pic below. NO, they're not all for me!!

......With the outrageous prices in 2007 Venice, sandwiches and pizza were about all we ate too!!



......One of my favorite Gondola pictures is the one (ABOVE) of a lone "gondoliere" I managed to snap right before he disappeared under the bridge we stood on. Ahhh.....how romantic!! (But of course, that too would cost an arm AND a leg if you wanted to take a gondola ride, which is at least $100 or more per (short) ride. Here's another picture of our son-in-law Claudio, too. It was often hard to get him to pose because he was always so busy snapping his own photos and videotaping. He was truly impressed with the beauty of Venice and Rome -- and now says he'd like to take Sonia to Italy with him to live for a year! I told him that to do that, he would need a LOT of money! That shut him up fast! LOL