I took the quickest 3 day trip to Ottawa earlier this month. It was certainly unexpected after just returning from Europe, but a close friend had recently moved there and was getting married, so I knew I needed to make the trip to celebrate the day with her. Logistically, while Ottawa is only a 5-hour drive from Toronto, I opted to take the train instead, which trimmed an incredible 30 minutes off the commute lol. Flying would have taken just over an hour and…
For our last full day in Venice, we did a bit of rearranging with our schedule. With the exception of our tickets to Saint Mark’s Basilica later that afternoon, we had already done everything we bought admissions to. That left us with a very empty itinerary for the rest of the day. While we were resting at the hotel the previous day, we started researching other things to do and came across a Vivaldi concert happening at the San Vidal Church. As…
Our stay at Hotel Antiche actually included a private boat to take us to Murano, which is known for its glass making. However, since we were planning on visiting Burano afterwards, we decided it would be more economical to buy 48hr public transportation tickets, which covers the islands and was good for the vaporetto or public waterbus. Since our boat was picking us up at 9:30am, we woke up early to have breakfast in the hotel lobby, then walked over to the…
We had to say goodbye to Milan as we were heading over to Venice as our next and final stop. That morning I ate the last of my leftover risotto, then we checked out of our hotel at 10:30am and headed over to the main station. We had about two hours before our train departed, so we browsed through some shops then had lunch at Mercato Centrale, which is a marketplace with food vendors and restaurants inside the station. By noon we…
Our next day was our only full day in Milan. When we were initially doing our vacation planning, the only highlights we looked at were the Duomo and seeing the Last Supper (which was sadly fully booked). Milan didn’t strike me as a city that had a lot to offer outside of it being a fashion district, but I must say that out of all the cities we visited on this trip, Milan ended up surprising me the most. Our combination…