Penguins

Venice is famous for its glass. The first time I visited the city (back in 1996, with Sarah) we were looking in the glass shops, and couldn't believe what awful bad taste it was!!! Dreadful chandeliers and glass flowers and trees. Definitely skillfully completed, but I can't say I'd give any of it house room!
This time we both thought that some of the glass pieces were actually quite nice, there's a new style of glass making with sparkley bits in it which has a lovely effect. Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of rubbish there - very expensive rubbish - but there are some bits we actually liked.
We did consider some of the plates or goblets but in the end we didn't manage to agree on an individual object (no surprise there!!)
So in order to buy *some* glass products as a memento from Venice, we bought some nice little glass pengies to add to the collection in the downstairs loo!