Thursday was a free day to explore Venice. For this day we decided to see the other islands of Venice. Each island is known for something. We traveled via boat bus to the island of Murano (island of glass) and then the island of Burano (island of lace). Murano had a lot of shops that sold glass objects of everything imaginable. We spent the most time in Burano, the island of lace. Burano was beautiful and full of different, bright colors. By far, it was my favorite island of Venice. We learned that every residence is a different shade of color to distinguish each house. We went to a lace museum. The best part of the museum was the local ladies in their 80s-90s making lace upstairs. One of them went to school, taught at the school, and was still making lace there. I took a video of them singing to us and talking to us in Italian. It was very entertaining, much more entertaining than the how to make lace video we watched partially downstairs haha..After Burano, we took a long boat ride back and finished at the San Giorgio Maggiore. After so many boat rides we would often find ourselves ‘rocking’ on the main land of islands as if we were still on the boat. This feeling never really happened on the boat just off the boats. Very strange and it got old kind of fast. So much wooziness. After arriving back at Lido, Lee and I ventured off to find the beach of Lido before sunset. We found it but there were gates and all these aluminum huts. We were not sure what their purpose is but they lined the beach so much so that you could not see past them.
Glass sculpture in Murano
lace making ladies in Burano
town of Burano
Burano colors
San Giorgio Maggiore
tin huts on beach front
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