Tales of the Traveling Tote
Welcome to another adventure of The Tales of the Traveling Tote. This is where my fellow Tales of the Traveling Tote friends and I share our latest travels, projects and our most current events. You will have an opportunity to visit other members at the end of this post and learn about our giveaway.
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Today, I am sharing a past trip to Venice.
First, let's think about the people of Ukraine
and
Pray for Peace
Love and support for the people of Ukraine
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Venice, Italy
The Carnival of Venice for 2022 began on Saturday, February 12 and ends today, Tuesday, March 1. Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. A world-famous festival know for its elaborate masks and costumes. Since we haven't traveled before Covid I am going to the archives for photos from a previous post from one of our trips to Italy. With a little help and fun from BeFunky, Miss Courtney joins us on this fabulous trip to Italy for the Venizia Carnival.
We traveled by train from Rome to Venice. Jim is standing on a bridge over the Grand Canal before we hopped on a vaporetto, a water bus to St. Mark's Square.

Our hotel was located on Piazza
San Marco. My sister stayed here on her trip and highly recommended the hotel. When I called for reservations I mentioned this and on our arrival we received a beautiful welcome basket from the management. How nice was that!

Outside our window was St. Mark's Basilica.
I loved hearing the bells chime

The masks and costumes were stunning!
Well, you know I couldn't go to Venice and not take a Gondola ride!

Meet my Gondolier, Marco. After this trip he appeared on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine.
Marco was very charming!
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Under the Bridge of Sighs
When we checked out of our hotel an escort was provided to the water taxi to get to the Vaporetto for our ride back to the train station. Then it was back to Rome
This was a short trip and good excuse to return one day. Thank you for your visit. I hope you will leave a comment, it's the only way I know you were here.
Now for our Giveaway
As always, The Traveling Tote girls want to thank you for following along with our travel adventures. For a chance to win this MacKenzie-Childs luggage tag just leave a comment below to be entered in the drawing. I will contact the winner for your mailing address. Thank you and good luck!
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I hope you will visit my Tale of the Traveling Tote friends for more fun adventures.
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Please join us for our next Tales of the Traveling Tote post and giveaway
Coming
June 1, 2022