Last Day

For our last morning, we took a water bus to the island of Murano. It took about 40 minutes and was totally worth the trip. 

We walked along what seemed like the main stretch for a while and went into A LOT of shops and saw A LOT of glass. We bought a few things. It’s hard to not spend money you don’t have to buy things you can’t carry home. The glass pieces range from absolutely cheesy to high art and the prices go along with it. We met a former glass blower who runs a shop with things made by either his father or other glass blowers if they’re better at a particular item than their family. 

We continued to shop for a while and then stopped for pizza before taking the water bus back to the main section of Venice. From there, we went to the Peggy Guggenheim collection. It was a breath of fresh air to see modern art. She has a pretty sizable collection. It seems like she went into a panic as World War II was heating up and bought a lot of paintings. She also fostered up and coming artists like Jackson Pollack and had 11 pieces by him alone. The building was an unfinished palace that she had purchased and lived in before turning everything into a museum. You can go out the back of one gallery and sit along the Grand Canal. It would not be a sucky place to live. 

After the museum we rested a little then went out in the neighborhood for last minute shopping and dinner. We had dinner at Osteria alla Staffa (where we had lunch a different day). It was soooo good. My shrimp came unpeeled and with the heads on so I felt like I made a huge mess. It was like eating mini lobsters but inside and without hand wipes after. 

We stopped in Piazza San Marco to listen to the music and so Mom could get a Bellini before heading back to our hotel to pack. It was a mild undertaking. 

Heading home 😭 thanks everyone for reading. I’m going to go back and edit my posts and post captions when I’m back on a real computer. Posting via iPad was not the easiest.