Arrive Venice walking tour 2012

Always on the top-ten list in any of the world's best places to visit, Venice is a magical delight in any season, rain or shine, night and day. Arriving by train, we help each other out with suitcases so every person doesn't have to carry their own bag on and off the train. It's quite easy to pull your bag through the train station. The pavement is smooth and it's really easy, especially when you're a hotel just a block away as we are, at the Hotel Abbazia. We walk right up the alley on another bit of smooth paving and we reach our hotel in about two minutes.
We begin with an outdoor lunch at the beautiful Campo San Giacomo della Orio in the heart of Venice. It is another one of those restaurants where the setting was more wonderful than the food, but the restaurant was good enough, Capitan Uncino.
After lunch we had back to our hotel and gather together for walking tour with Daniela. We are heading into the heart of Venice on this walking tour with Daniela now in the central section of Venice and ultimately will be heading to the Piazza San Marco, but we are going to take our time and explore. We are going to take you on a back route that's not often walked by tourists. It's a lovely and enchanting route through these narrow alleyways, passing little shops and restaurants here and there, the old decaying and crumbling buildings, beautiful brick structures. And we get to the oldest wine bar in Venice. Do Mori, very famous, about 500 years old. You can get snacks in here called cicchetti, washed down with a small glass of wine they call an ombra.
Then our walking route takes us to the Piazza San Marco, where we enter the ancient Basilica, then continue around the corner to the Bridge of Sighs, and completing our walk with dinner at Povoledo Restaurant near our hotel.