Richard and Eunice's 2007 Wedding and Honeymoon

The morning started early, we had planned to get up at around 6AM to get to a tour which we thought started at 7.15AM. However due to a small oversight on our behalf, it actually started at 9.15AM. Getting up so early, I walked around Venice with the street cleaners and a few birds as the only souls around and grabbed some early shots. Whilst I was gone, Eunice ironed the wedding gown and Tuxedo in preperation for tomorrows big day. The Wedding was just over 24 hours away!

When I arrived back to the hotel, with the extra time we decided to get some breakfast from the hotel's resturant. We ate up big as we'd paid for this as part of our hotel costs, so to cut down on our food requirements during the day. Although Europe seems expensive, the food here is fairly cheap. I'm still coming to grips with the conversion rate where we are getting about one Euro to every two Australian Dollars, so what seems cheap is double the price, a €5 roll is $au10!

We took a few photos in the hotel lobby to kill some extra time we now had, before heading down to Saint Mark's Square where we did the same again.

When we met with our guide, Guiseppe, for the morning tour of "Walking Tour of Venice", he told us some facts and figures for the history of the Saint Mark's Church.

Taking us inside the Church, he showed us where Saint Mark, the Patron Saint of Venice, and one of the authors of the bible, were buried, inside this Church. As flash photography was not allowed, we grabbed these few phots of the interior.

Next with our tour, we visited the Douges Palace, with our guide explaining that this was the figurehead of the parliment in Venice. Whilst not an all powerful man such as the parliment of today, he explained that around 5% of the population were allowed to visit the Palace. As photos as not allowed in the Palace, we grabbed these pictures before and after the ban.

As a suprise to everyone on the tour, the guide announced we could go for a free trip to Milano to see the glass blowing process employed for hundreds of years. A new guide was bought along, Antonio, who brought us across to the island and then gave us to an English speaking guide who explained the blowing process.

And some photos of the finished works.

When we arrived back to Venice, we changed some money from Australian dollars to Euros, for our planned meeting this afternoon with the wedding co-ordinator, Monica, and for tid-bits we had seen around Venice thus far.

After the meeting, Monica took us to DHL to talk sbout shipping the gown and tuxedo back to KL as we weren't too keen to drag it around Europe; then went back to her office to view some of the example photos taken by the photographer who was employed to take ours.

We got some directions from Monica to go afterwards to the Riato markets - and strolled there to view and buy some of the local goods. On the way we saw the pattisarie of "Andrea Zanin", so took some photos of the cakes for my good friend Paul, who had asked if we could take some photos of European cakes.

At the markets we found some cheap walking shoes and decided to put them on there and then. The boots we had bought along were not so practical, and I found with all the walking we were doing my feet were already beginning to hurt. Some of the glassworks were different to the ones from the island of Murano, and a lot cheaper as well. Almost every store had a sign stating "Real Murano Glass", but I had my doubts about some. We bought a pair of glass cufflinks for myself and Eunice bought a necklace before wandering around the rest of the marketplace. Eventually we bought some Limencillo and Grappa, two of the local drinks, as well as some soft buns and Olive Oil, which later made the nights dinner.

When we got back to the hotel Westin, we were anticipating relaxing for a short while and then exploring Venice at night, but we tried the Limencello and Grappa and had a bath; the drinks must be an aquired taste as I found the Limencello bitter, and the Grappa was akin to drinking Turpentine. So with the wedding tomorrow we turned in early again with the anticipation of a big day ahead.

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