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My Favorite Places: Lewes, DE and Venice, Italy

Lewes, DE
One of my favorite places to be is the town of Lewes, DE. I have family who lives there and so, when I was a child, my family drove to Delaware most summers to visit. In Lewes, there is a house that belonged to my great-grandparents that we stayed at. The town has a large canal and is on the ocean. It is small but has a lot of local shops that make it fun to walk around the main streets. The city also has a hand operated turning train bridge and a drawbridge over the canal. I loved going out when the horn sounded to watch it raise and lower to allow boats to go through. There is also a state park called Cape Henlopen, where a ferry runs to New Jersey a few times a day. There is a bay where you can find horseshoe crabs and periwinkles and seashells.

Here is a picture of the lighthouse at Cape Henlopen which my mother took:


And here is a photo looking down the canal from the drawbridge:

This photo was taken by Melissa and I found it here: flickr

Venice, Italy
Another of my favorite places is Venice, Italy. I studied abroad last summer and went to Venice during a free weekend. I found a boat to stay on through Airbnb and spent two days exploring the main island and some surrounding islands. My favorite places to see were St. Mark's square, and the islands of Murano and Burano where there are many glassmaking and lacemaking shops.

Here are some photos I took while I was there:

Near St. Mark's square:

Burano:

Here is the photo of the marina that I stayed at:



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  1. Laura GibbsJanuary 10, 2019 at 11:58 AM

    I will confess that I do not know any legends about Lewes, Delaware, Elyse... but about Venice: oh, there are legends! Maybe you will even want to do a Venice-inspired project for this class. Or a project telling the stories of paintings by one of the famous painters of Venice, like Titian , for example. He did some amazing paintings on religious and mythological subjects, like this one of Bacchus and Ariadne: so beautiful! :-)

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