After spending several days in Austria and South Tirol we ended out summer road trip with a weekend trip to Venice. We started early at Passo Sella Dolomiti Resort and drove in direction Belluno, crossing by Marmolada & the eastern Dolomites. We can totally recommend the drive, the views are scenic and you pass by the small alpine villages. Even in beginning of July’20 there were lots of stories of travelers and friends of us how empty Venice and especially its small alleys and piazzas were? Back then Alex and myself start researching for a nice small hotel in the middle of Venice to get the real „Venice“ feeling. We stayed 3,5 days and 3 nights in Venice. Our plan for Venice was visiting the main sites in the city, including Murano and Burano. But we wanted to stroll around and just enjoy Venice.
Accommodation
Palazzo Venart – A Small Luxury Collection Hotel
As always right after the decision to visit a city, sight or island we started looking for the available accommodation options. By chance, due to the lack of tourists from China and the States, also the small and really luxury palazzo hotels were available and more or less reasonable in price. We chose the Palazzo Venart a Small Luxury Collection Hotel. We really liked the style of the hotel and our small room with a big roof top patio. Unfortunately the pads of our lounge were taken away on the second day during a light rain and never came back. Probably this was our own fault. We were totally fine with the size of the of the room and completely overwhelmed by the size and style of the bathroom.
We really liked the location in a quite area next to the Valporetto Station „San Stae“. To summarize we can totally recommend the hotel, the staff and the food. At some point we will visit Palazzo Venart again.
Food
La Colombina
We already wrote a complete review under the title „Food Preview to Venice“ 4 months ago. Feel free to read this review.
Muro San Stae
Just „ a few steps“ away from Palazzo Vernat and the valporetto station „San Stae“ you can find the „Muro San Stae“ on a lonely piazza. The food is solid, tasty and reasonable in price. We had a starter and a pizza, which we liked pretty much. Definitely a restaurant which we will choose again.
What have we done in Venice?
Well, those of you following us since some time and knowing other reviews of physicalflashpacking.com, but in Venice we will tell the story in a different way. We will not tell you what to visit or like all the VLOG travel blogger we met last year in Venice: „Come let us explore Venice together.“ We will let inspirations tell our story, and show you Venice through our eyes, or better lenses.
Venice
First, we visited all the main attractions within the city borders of Venice: San Marco, Rialto, etc. . After this we just used our time to stroll around and had one or two Sprizz after 12. Over the years we turned away from being this type of hunting tourist but more the absorbent ones.
Murano
After a short ride with Vaporetto Line 12 (it is the same line you have to use to get to Burano) you arrive at the beautiful „glass“ island of Murano. Murano glass factories are known worldwide for their quality glass products. We really liked the style of Murano with all the little alleys, yards and places. And of course we also had a Sprizz after 12 in Murano.
Burano
If you search for Venice on a search engine, beside already named standard tourist attractions, pictures of colourful houses will definitely catch your eye. This is Burano. We were pretty lucky, the streets were pretty empty and we were able to enjoy our visit to Burano.
To summarize our visit in Venice in August 2020, we really enjoyed our stay. We were able to stay in one of this small luxury Palazzo hotel, enjoyed good food without the need of a reservation.
We hope you like our different travel blog of Venice.
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