From time to time we’re taking the kids to major cities in Europe, to add new impressions to their cultural backpacks. We have been to London, Paris, Genova (where Columbus was born), to the ancient city of Pompeii … and this summer, we went to Venice.
We visited the famous San Marco Square, with the big cathedral, the Doge Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, and we travelled on the canals and around the archipelago with the public boat system (that's what they have instead of buses)
When we came back from the vacation, and the grandmother asked little boy about Venice, he didn't even mention the San Marco Cathedral or the Hieronymus Bosch paintings in the Doge Palace. Little boy replied: "I saw a dead rat floating in the canal" >:)
