A day of travel: Bavaria to Venice

We left Fussen yesterday, travelled by train for 9 hours to get to Venice. We traveled back through Bavaria and saw the rolling hills topped with Chalets. We crossed Austria in less than an hour. On the train we had a cabin all to ourselves on the train where we read, listened to music, ate our packed lunch and watched the scenery go buy. We arrived in Venice at 6:10 in the evening. We found our hotel in 10 minutes, dropped our luggage and headed out to find something to eat. We ended up in the Jewish Ghetto which is a very interesting part of Venice. The streets are a rabbit Warren of allies, and passageways that go on and on. It is one of the most unique places we have seen. We went down some very dark narrow streets but felt totally safe. There were people everywhere visiting, playing with their kids, shopping. Everyone seemed very friendly. We ate at a lovely kosher restaurant where the waitresses spoke Italian, English, German, Hebrew and who knows what else. We walked around for a couple hours just taking everything in. Venice is a very busy, friendly place. Our room in the hotel is half a block of the street 100 steps up. Our room has two beds and a sink, toilet and shower ( and bedae) in the hall. It's cozy, clean and staff are friendly. Perfect for us! We can open our window and look down into the street. We had the best sleep we've had so far!