Bonjourno!!! we ve finally begun our travels! arrived in Venice and it was snowing but weather has been a lot better since then. Had some confusion with buying tickets for the water bus and ended up with many trips to spare on the regular bus!! never mind, we should really learn some more Italian!! Been to the big open space and up the tall thing in st marks square and even been artistic and done some sketching!! our cooking is pretty good at the moment (have eaten a lot of pizza though!) letis flat is really nice and weve even been using the gym, leti more than me as i tend to end up in the jacuzzi rather than the running machine!! were going to find out how much it is to go to verona for a day next week, and hopefully go if its not too expensive as we are being very frugal with the money!!