Venice Through Her Eyes

I had written this for my sister who was a foodie as well as a traveller. Unfortunately due to a ligament tear her trip to Venice was cancelled

This is your first day in Venice you open the balcony of your room and in front of you is an orange building with ancient European architecture. You look down and there is a canal flowing you see a pearl white bridge just next to your hotel and you can see gondolas which are the famous snake lined boats to travel in Venice. Right now you are dressed in a white top and a floral skirt with a white jacket just relaxing and stretching your body by window.

You have a special place to go today but first you need to get ready for it by evening. It's still just 3 in the afternoon and you are lying on the bed rolling over and trying to read some Italian books.

You get tired and you take out the Novel you have been reading in flight and dim the lights of the room to orange remove the jacket and pick up your nerdy specs and read it.

After 2 hours of an imaginary experience you get back to the phone to your right lean on the bed and call the room service for a plate of pasta and coffee and in reality you taste and understand that the actual Italian pasta are much tasteless so you now order a pizza with extra origano and also a pineapple juice.

You take the big slice of pizza which has a crusty melting cheese falling on the box with the red Peri Peri sauce and some of it remains on your lips.

It is thin crispy and cheesy with a lot of flavours...You experiment and put the white pastas you ordered on the pizza and suddenly have a soft creamy and spicy creamy taste all together.

You also order a white chocolate lava cake. The cake is different as it is full of white chocolate melted inside...The first piercing of spoon into it leads to the melted white hot choclate covering the entire cup...It is too hot yet too sweet...A soft crunch and a lot of richness.

You have the pineapple juice which is served to you in a glass about 30 cm with not just pineapple juice but also an orange soda and orange ice cream in it...

You eat it and take a nap for a while with soft music and dim lights. You wake up and it's already time to go out. You take a shower and change to a new gown for your outing. This one is your favorite one and you call it sunshine...It is a bright yellow gown with a long kneck which has gradiation and gets deep yellow around the waist and below knees is light orange and then dark orange...

You leave your specs have an orange lipstick and roll around checking the gown in the mirror you wear huge earings and a small neck piece.

You get down from the hotel and in front of you is your tour boat a black and red from inside boat with a driver at the back...You are alone in the boat and just feel the cool water leaning towards...You see the local public and children waving you a Hi as a tourist. The person the driver at the back sings the folk custom songs in italian. There are small gondolas with the tiara sellers and with the real flowers one. You take the one with orange lillies and green branches and place it on the head. You ask the driver to click a pic in your mobile...You witness the beautiful orange red sunset similar to your gown bottom.

You reach the other restaurant which you wanted to visit and have a garlic bread with thick crust. The garlic bread has pepper chilly flakes and olives above and jalepino in the side it is soft and crusty with a mild soothing taste of garlic and then the special Italian cheese sauce.

It's a traditional restaurant and as a tourist you are getting an awesome welcome. The waitress asks you for your favourite English song to be played but you have a different plan you stand up and ask the waitress to give her guitar to You. You sit on the red chair placing the guitar on your lap and instructing the fellow pianist to play the notes of " heart will go on " and then " Love me like you do"... Everyone loves these songs in an Indian accent by you with your nails pricking the chords of guitar and the soothing cover from the piano.

You get lot of applauses and you feel that you have left a mark. The waitress takes a picture with you which will go on the best guest wall of the restaurant.

While you are returning you buy some oreos and a DVD of an English movie to see at night. You also buy some soveignier for your friends and now want to try something new in Italian dish

You go to your hotel and order a Lasagna with a Strawberry Rolls for dessert..By the time it comes you dress up comfortable in white shorts and black and white top with your nerds on

As you eat your first lasagna bite with a fork you realise it's a sweet spicy and tangy flavour of tomato with a softness of bread and chilly sauce. You take each and every bite with passion and try to finish it as slow as possible. The strawberry rolls are not the hard ones like in India they are also made of soft bread and as you take the first bite the strawberry crush enters your mouth and sticks on upper side of mouth with a sweet and sour taste.

You finally order a bottle of coke and play the movie you bought in your room sitting on the bed with a bag full of Oreo biscuits of all flavours orange vanilla chocolate and strawberry