Day 1, Uncle St. Marco et all

The next morning, I woke up early to discover the city myself. Mornings are different than afternoons and afternoons are tiring than evenings. So, I started for my discovery crossing streets, narrow lanes, and small bridges looking at people, local & otherwise noticing their activities and sensing the air of Venice morning life.
You can roam around Venice very easily; it’s a small city with well connected lanes and by-lanes. But, at times it becomes confusing because there are no signboards or if there are, they are old or hidden somewhere.
In the afternoon after having my breakfast, I went to Santa Lucia railway station (I will tell about this station later in the write-up) to meet my uncle who was arriving from Trieste, a small Italian city near Venice.
After freshening up, we decided to discover more of Venice à pied and take the boat to visit nearby islands the day after.
We crossed some streets, between the hush and rush of off-season visitors, (still there were many) and reached San Marco. A very beautiful palace museum with gold studded interiors and exteriors. The palace (now converted into museum) has huge courtyard to welcome ever-growing number of visitors, the entrance to the courtyard occupied by expensive jewel merchants on two sides and continued with Grand Canal on one and general shops on the other. Inside the palace there is huge veranda linked to 4 parts of museum, and the bloody (chiant) thing is you have to start from one end and come from another; you can’t come down and revisit one area or start from the middle. Maybe it happened with us because we entered late. The museum closes at 5 in the evening!
Indeed, it’s a beautiful museum palace worth visiting with stunning interiors.
Now regarding food, if you are looking for Italian specialties, you would get it here, but as it’s not “that” famous Italian food, I was obliged to eat fast-food (paninis, pizzas) and buy some stuff from BILLA supermarket for morning breakfast.