What Fills My Plate

Hot and Muggy, that is what we are experiencing right now here outside of Venice.   Venice, with all that water will be worse.   What I need right now is a nice cold frappe’, and a nice rain shower after. Monselice Castle Here’s a shot of our American cowboy burger restaurant, if you look behind it, you will see a castle on top of the hill above Monselice, a small town south of Padova.   You can see the grass is brown from lack of water.   Another lack of, is the ketchup we asked for.    Cheap Burger Joint! We both had fries and they brought us three packs of ketchup.   This was after I asked for molto ketchup…..a lot.   Served for a laugh from us.   They charge for each package, learning from McDonalds on this. Open on Weekends Another castle near Monselice and viewable from our home is this one.   Built much later by a man who was famous as a soldier for hire.  Behind this castle is the ruined building wh...

Several people have asked me questions about visiting Venice, Rome and parts of Italy.   I am always glad to help them my bird’s eye view of Venice with advice on what to see, and what not to see.   Most folks have a limited stay, so that is important.   Just this week, a dear cousin has asked me to help her friend at work who has planned a trip to Venice and Rome.   These will be the first webcams to get her feet on the ground.   There are many webcams which give people a good idea of what they will experience.   My plan is to start of with these with a small explanation.  Bookmark them and view them daily. What I have found is that many people have no clue about the islands of Venice with the big canals and the many small ones.   They think it is one big gondola ride in   a small canal, but there is a lot more.   Take a look at the big canal just off St. Mark’s Square.   BTW, if you are making a trip here, it is fun to bo...