Guinea Ham: Pig or Fowl?

Hello everyone,

Today was a very long day...we visited two island in the lagoon, named as follows:

Murano: known for glass. we saw a man make a very kitschy and slightly ugly but yet somehow fascinating and amazing horse.

Burano: known for lace. very cute, houses are colorful according to strict city plan, and we met a very sweet and slightly lonely Canadian college student named Emma, with whom we spent the afternoon. She's au pairing for a wealthy Milanese family, and gets do things like Venice on the weekends.

So, last night, we went after much difficulty with navigating the alleyways/calles/canals of Venice, to a small bar/restaurant for dinner. We had to choose from several dishes on display to order from...Deanna pointed to something that looked awfully lot like boneless chicken breast chunks in sauce, and asked if it was chicken. The slightly grumpy proprietress replied NO. It's GUINEA HAM. Guinea ham??? We asked again. GUINEA HAM, she said. We ordered it. We sat down, waited, and discussed, could it possibly be guinea pig? D had some logic that weirdly made sense...pig is called ham, thus guinea ham could be....guinea pig? It came. We ate it. It tasted awfully like chicken. Wes Reed, any opinions? (we're pretty sure it was GUINEA FOWL, but it's kind of a funny story, no?)


The "bus" here is a large boat, with several lines going all around Venice and surrounding islands. Between missing boats by a few minutes, or making mistakes/not understanding directions given, we managed to spend about 1.5 hours waiting for boats today....but on the bright side, it was beautiful out, we made a new friend, and for goodness sakes we're in Venice...

tomorrow we drag our aching bodies and increasing luggage to the train station for Florence...more from Firenze!

ciao!
e & d