The kids had a long weekend for All Saint’s Day so we took the opportunity to pop over to Italy. Vance and I have always wanted to visit Venice and take the kids to see Rome. The airport in Venice is built right along the water so we walked along 4 long moving sidewalks to a busy dock with water taxis and a water bus service. We hopped on one just as it was ready to leave and zoomed off to Venice in the dark.
It’s a good thing that Jett started learning how to read Roman numerals just before our trip. It came in handy at many monuments in Italy.
Although Venice was utterly charming and beautiful, the food was pretty atrocious and expensive. So we zipped off in another water bus to go to Rome to get some really good food. We ate lots and lots of pizza and pasta…
Since it was a bank holiday, the crowds were huge. So we saw the roman forum, coliseum, and pantheon from outside. They were still impressive and it gave us more time to eat! We did convince the kids to go to one cathedral, St. Clement Basilisca. It’s a 14th century church built on top of a 3rd century church, built on top of a 1st century pagan temple. Three stories built on top of each other. They’ve excavated the bottom levels so you can walk back through centuries of history.
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