Venice

First things first, the internet costs about one billion Euro a minute, so this is gonna be short.
Venice was ridiculous. Stunning. Mesmerizing. Surreal. There are not enough words.
Tonight I am in Florence where Lee and I are less entranced by...will see The David tomorrow and some art, but plan to get the heck outta here and get ourselves into the bowels of Tuscany...probably Cortona where a cheap hostel awaits us. Rent a car maybe...

It is hard to sum it all up with a time constraint. The pic on the right was our budget hotel ... adorable. Two scoops of gelato costs about $18 CAD and our hotel tonight is a modest choice at $180 CAD. This has us in a money panic and have decided to just have fun and rebook our ticket back home if and when we reach about $5000-$6000. At this rate, that might not take much, but I am hoping that some miracles will take place.
And there was hot water tonight in our shower, which in Venice I was not so lucky to experience. Most people speak a little English so we are doing fine language wise.
What else? God, I am writing this will absolutely no panache what so ever....um, our backpacks are SO FREAKING HEAVY, we can not seem to find our hotels very easily once getting off trains and planes and the architecture here is beyond anything I could have imagined. Oh, and here in Florence, the biggest positive yet, the computer I am on is a Mini Mac which means I am able to present you a few pictures. Pictures worth much since the digital camera broke the other day and a new German one was purchased for about 900 zillion Euro. So enjoy them...and this post as it might there will be very few of these if the internet continues to be primarily for royalty.
So much to say, so little time. Italy is romance. Tuscany will hopefully be romance with fewer people. And then after that, Paris. Oh yes...

life is hard.