We first went to Murano mainly because it is closest. We came across, yes, you guessed it, a glass manufacturer, what an unusual event ! Anyway, it was interesting watching the glass blower master provide a demonstration of his art. We then wandered through to the rest of the town which has countless shops that sell all sorts of glass objects. As with all things, one glass shop starts to look like all the others and you soon lose interest. In the end we headed back to the first place we visited and purchased a couple of things from there. At least their products were made on the premises and therefore is genuine Murano glass. We then went across to Burano and had a look around the shops but lace wasn't of much interest except for a nice little lace top that caught Rodney's eye which he thought would look nice on his beautiful wife. Gabriella used her Italian and asked the shop owner how much does this cost, his reply was € 160 . That's right we walked away, back on the bus and back to Venice.
We popped into the coffee shop that we had been to in the morning where we were served the cheapest coffee that we have had to date and thought that we were on a winner only to find out that we had been under charged in the morning because we had been charged standing up at the counter drinking coffee rates versus sitting down and occupying a table and chair drinking coffee price, hence, the price went up by 40%. For those of you who don't know this, in Italy you are charged extra if you sit and drink your coffee rather than standing. We did actually know this but were of the impression that if you ordered something to eat that the coffee price would not be increased. Wrong!
Gabby got some joy out of this as the same cute waiter from the morning served us in the afternoon so she was happy anyway.
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