Having just eaten an entire packet of chocolate wafers as my breakfast I thought I should try to assuage my guilt by updating my blog.
One of the high points of this week was being mistaken for a German at the ticket office – brilliant. Another was discovering lambrusco; a fizzy red wine which comes in litre and a half bottles and is as quaffable as ribena. I was also very happy to discover that one of the Italian interns here is a big Patrick Wolf fan!
On Friday I left the main lagoon area for the first time , making the journey to Burano and Torcello with fellow intern from New Zealand, Chloe. Burano is a mad place. For no apparent reason (as far as I could find out) the residents of the island decided at some point that they should paint each of their houses a different, garish colour. It's sort of like Balamory minus the cretinous singing and dancing, with a whole load of Japanese tourists touting some serious photographic equipment instead.
It was a short vaporetto ride across to Torcello which had a cathedral with a beautiful Byzantine mosaic covering an entire wall depicting the Last Judgment. It was strange to see something so imposing and ornate on an island that is so out of the way and unassuming.
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