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Day 227, 16 February 2013, Murano Island. We wrangled the gear back into the bags this morning and regretfully checked out of the gorgeous Hotel Belle Epoque. Can you believe that we've spent our 4 nights in Venice and it's Packing Day already? We certainly couldn't. Today we headed back to Murano to visit the Museum of Glass and we saw some incredible specimens of Roman glass from the 1st and 2nd centuries. Incredibly accurate and stylish and unbelievably intact. The highlight of the visit however was a temporary exhibition of Walter Nancy / Daum Nancy glass wares. Until now we'd just seen this sort of thing on "Antiques Roadshow"! We meandered the bridges and streets of Murano and after spending thousands of imaginary dollars in the 'what would you buy from this shop' game we tootled back to Venice. Another stunningly sunny and warm day - difficult to believe it snowed here just 4 days ago. We are catching a sleeper train to Vienna, Austria tonight - because we are in the fortunate position of having had a couple of days in Vienna in December, we are going to jump off the sleeper at 8 am and onto a smaller train for the one hour journey to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Just for a couple of nights prior to heading to Poland. Should be interesting. All aboard!
PS - today's photo is just random glass decorating a cafe in Murano. Glass is everywhere!
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