The eggs in the carbonarra are the sauce. Raw egg yolks are blended with pecorino cheese, a little bit of pasta water. When the pasta is done it is taken off the heat, drained (some water reserved) added to the bacon pan, and then the raw egg yolks and cheese mixture added to make the most delicious sauce. The heat of the pan and the hot pasta cooks it all and it does not come out like scrambled eggs! The extra hot pasta water is in case it is a little bit thick so you can add that without ruining the sauce. So happy to see you enjoyed Venice. Ciao from Calabria.
Best part: "Mom, can we also have 4 dogs when having 4 dogs is awsome?" "No, we can't have 4 dogs because we have 4 kids." Loved it! (Classic) carbonara is made like that; cook your pasta. Fry some pancetta or bacon or guancale and some garlic (optional) in a pan, then mix egg yolks (or whole eggs) with parmesan cheese. Add some pasta water to the mixture and stirr. Put your cooked pasta into the pan with bacon (and garlic) , add the egg-pasta water-parmesan mixture and stirr. Add more pasta water until you reach the level of creaminess you like. Season with freshly grounded black pepper and enjoy.
A children’s book that is related to Venice is “Herr der Diebe /Lord of thieves” by the German author Cornelia Funke. If you haven’t read it yet, it would be a great read for the whole family (adults included!) now that you have visited the alleys and canals where the story takes place!
It was funny when you said "Its just 5 hours to Venice...'. I remember when I visited a friend in San Antonio Texas as a teenager. My first time in the US and for 2 weeks they took me to see what I felt like the whole US, from beaches to mountains to prary to everything, but in reality: we had never even left the state!!! ...so Europe must really feel small to you.
Yes that’s so true! Every year we would drive 6 hours to go to the beaches to Florida for vacation so Europe does feel small. But in a good way! It’s so cool to drive 2 hours and hear another language and eat different food!
"I have to change my mood" - hilarious ! What a stunningly beautiful video, thank you so much for taking us along on your trip to Venice ! I literally forgot everything around me and felt like I was there with you and your joyful family. Just think of all the memories of their unforgettable childhood your kids will be able to cherish when they get older . Your family is really "unique" as Ella would say ! ;)
What a beautiful video :) It touched me. This is not "content" it's "je ne sais quoi". The positive vibe, the awesome people (half father, half sherpa, Kevin is awesome: D), the cinematography, the cuts. the music. Maybe it's like a wonderful example on how to go beyond a vlog and turn it into art. Maybe I am a bit emotional at the moment but there is just so much positive power here. So all I can say is thank you for doing this, this affects me in the heart. There is a german comedian/singer (Funny Van Dannen) who called it "Die großen Gefühle". So not feelings, but great feelings. Like when you watch an opera and it touches you, or music that really reverberates in you, or a really great movie and you are like "holy Oo". So thank you so much, this video triggered some great feeling-experience in me, with the beautiful shots and all. It puts me in a mood, where I want to write poems again which I did in my youth. But thank you so much for this wonderful thing that you do. If I think about it, it could possibly be, that you guys are pretty much the coolest family on earth.
Thank you so very much! I’m so touched that the video moved and inspired you. I do love to create art with my videos and I love that you appreciate that. Your comment made my day - thank you!
Your kids are so lucky to grow up in your family :-) Your are so open minded and interested in everything. That is a real blessing! I know a lot of people who hardly every leave their homes because they are not interested. Your family is great and I'm looking forward to every new episode! What I really would like to ask is if your children sometimes miss your American home and would like to go back?
Some weeks ago, you had a nice trip to Venice and today, I had a nice half hour of watching your venician experiencies and thrills. I guess, you were filming almost the whole time, you spent on this journey. Thank you so much for doing this great job and for presenting on YT.
Morgen, Klaus! 😀 Yeah I bet it looks like I film constantly but I don’t. This was 30 minutes out of 4 days. So there’s a lot of time when we were relaxing and enjoying ourselves!
"We want them to have these special memories at their travels you keep well into adulthood." It's heartwarming to hear that there are still parents who think this way. Your children will grow up to be something great.
Hallo, ich sehe Eure Videos mit großem Vergnügen, es ist schön zu sehen das Ihr in Deutschland angekommen seid. Wir sind verliebt in Venedig und mindestens jedes zweite Jahr dort, wir haben eine entspannte Anreise da wir mit dem Nachtzug von Salzburg direkt nach Venedig fahren und morgens um 8Uhr direkt am Bahnhof Venice ankommen. Es sind dann nur noch ein paar Schritte zum Vaporetto (Wasserbus), wir haben auch immer ein wundervolles Apartment mit tollem Blick auf die Stadt. Venedig ist soviel mehr als Rialto und Markusplatz, dabei etwas abseits von dem Trubel nicht teurer als bei uns am Waginger See/ Bayern. Vielleicht ist es interessant für Euch ein paar Tipps zu Venedig zu erhalten. Viele Grüße Werner
Thanks for this incredibly enjoyable trip! I had always heard that the Venetians don't like the tourists and were unfriendly to them, so although I've lived in Bavaria for almost 30 years I haven't wanted to go there. Now you've changed my mind! It looks amazing! Thanks!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Yes, I'm sure. We always try to use at least a little of the local language wherever we go and find it makes so much difference. 👍 The timing of your trip may also have helped. Even Venice was virtually empty during the worst of the pandemic. Maybe they're happy to have business again?
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife On the one hand, yes, Venice IS a stunning town with an incredible flair- on the other hand (sorry, if I sound like a grouch) it is a huge tourist trap. Long time ago in 1987 my mom was there with me, there were a lot of overpriced restaurants (if you sit outside and there are musicians playing, the restaurant puts them on your bill!) and kitschy souvenir shops. For Venice the masses of tourists are bless and curse- they bring a lot of money into the town, but they clog the streets and the Venetians feel bothered in their hometown. In Italy I would recommend other towns for a visit: Verona (Gardasee-area), Florence, Rome (a very stressful town, in the time from spring until fall also overcrowed with tourists). For sometime I still plan a trip to beautiful Naples (attention: A lot of pickpockets) and the islands Capri/Ischia. My grandfather learned to speak Italian very well, he and my grandma often travelled in Italy and knew the whole country.
@@kaleigh4081 I think staying in Jesolo or near the Gardasee/in Verona and visiting Venice for a day is smarter. We rented a flat with sea view in spring for a week in Jesolo and went for a day to Venice.
@@sollte1239 Thanks, good idea. We've been to the beautiful Garda Lake a few times and did take a day trip to Verona one day. It's also beautiful. Our trip to Rome was also amazing, but, as you say, very crowded.
"We can't have 4 dogs because we have 4 children" 😂 On a serious talk, looks like such an exotic place to go with just 5 hours of driving and the bread looks amazing!
Venice is not only a longing destination for Americans. My father's (born 1919) first vacation and at the same time his first voluntary trip abroad took him to Venice in the first half of the 1950s. By motorcycle.
When you see Venice while listing to Vivaldi , it all makes sense somehow ;) It's nice to see you people went of the beaten track and spend some time in the less tourist areas. Every building has quint little things, strange symbols, statues , etc, etc, I have been there so often, and still discover something new everytime .
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife thank you, Sara! We just watched it again together. It’s such a lovely video, but also very informative. I love the children‘s reactions on the gondola, and the half sherpa comment is so funny. We can identify, just with our two doggies!
An Italian friend gave us some good advice for our Venice vacation: get a hotel in Venice, not on the mainland. Get up early and conquer the city. Have a late breakfast and rest until the afternoon, then escape the heat and mass tourism. Enjoy the evening with bread and wine while cooling your feet in the canals. It was wonderful. You may have been lucky that the big ships weren't allowed in yet. Usually they arrive at 9am and thousands of tourists (many Chinese) flood the city, so you can't put one foot in front of the other. In the morning and evening you have Venice to yourself and can enjoy the Italian way of life.
That’s a great tip from your friend! Seeing the city early in the morning would be ideal. They should stop allowing those cruise ships! How they must cheapen everything. Too many tourists all at once, more than the city can hold.
A very pleasant, colourful video and so nice to watch you all, enjoying a wonderful time. Thank you for sharing. It is soul warming! Great experience for your kids! Have a pleasant Sunday and stay healthy! :-) (P.S. Here in Augsburg, we have a Mozart house, now a museum. He once lived here.)
You are right Sara at the Beginning of this video when you said and in Five hours you will be in Venice. That is so nice about Europe the closesness. My relative lives near Stuttgart airport is only 75 miles from the French border and 105 miles to Swiss border.
Venedig ist wirklich eine Stadt mit einzigartigem Flair, dem man sich nicht entziehen kann. Schön, daß ihr sie besichtigen konntet. Die Kinder werden diese Erfahrungen nie vergessen. Ich war bislang nur einmal dort - als Tagesausflug während eines Urlaubs in Südtirol. Obwohl es nur ein Tag war, sind dabei auch bei mir nachhaltige Eindrücke entstanden. P.S.: Ich freue mich schon auf den zweiten Teil.
My favourite in Venice is late at night, sitting in the bow of the vaporetto, on Canale Grande with the iluminated palaces and looking out for painted ceilings through the windows.
The first working mirror after the tried of the Romans was made in Venice about 500 years ago, which is why the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles was feasible. Before that, there was no really clear image to see, because the mirror image was not really sharp, but blurred. Earlier mirrors were made of polished metal surfaces. Der erste funktionierende Spiegel nach den Versuchen der Römer wurde in Venedig vor ca. 500 Jahren hergestellt, deswegen war auch der Spiegelsaal von Versailles realisierbar. Davor gab es kein wirklich klares Bild zu sehen, denn das Spiegelbild war nicht wirklich scharf, sondern verschwommen. Frühere Spiegel waren aus polieren Metallflächen.
I am sure your kids will have some wonderful memories for their whole life. Maybe they don t remember every historic fact, but they will have this feeling of joy , happiness, "dreamy water"....
Yes! They won't remember all of the history but they will remember that they went to Venice. And then when they're adults they may be excited to go back and really learn the history.
Beautiful video! I love that Americans are so excited to travel only 5 hours or less, to be in another country and culture. It never ceases to amaze them. On the flip side, when Europeans come to the U.S., you can travel 10 hours or more by car, and still be in the same state (see Texas, California, Florida). A colleague of mine when we lived in Dallas, had 2 aunties visiting from the U.K. They wanted to take a short day trip to the beaches in Florida. That made me laugh out loud. ;)
There are some of us Europeans who do understand distances, though. I come from Central Scotland and in the days before air travel became affordable, our annual trip to near Paris to stay with our French grandparents took 25 hours by train and boat or a minimum of 24 hours by car. Getting to an island in the North of Germany in the 1970s meant a 36 hour trip, with at least 8 changes of transport (bus, several trains, at least one ferry, sometimes air taxi when the tide was wrong. So when I was visiting my sister in Colorado, it was more than enough touring the Four Corners region and south Wyoming. Five states in five weeks is probably pretty good going. I didn't actually expect to be able to do as much. The South of Bavaria is pretty well placed for closeness to other countries. Hamburg to Venice would probably take at least 14 hours.
@@alicemilne1444 yeah that’s the reason we haven’t been to Hamburg yet. We’d have to fly because a 14 hour drive is awful with our 4 kids! Only if we could do it in a camper and see Germany along the way.
You’re such a lovely family. You and Kevin are such good parents! There’s a lovely island you can go to by boat from Venice. I can’t remember the name of it, but it has stores that specialize in lace. And each house is painted a different bright colour! It’s just beautiful!
I was excited to see you arrive in Mestre. When I was taking the train to Italy to go to my cousins wedding (most of my family that is still alive is Italian) and two of my uncles picked me up in Mestre to go to the area where most of my family live, which is just over an hour away from Mestre. It amazes me how much your children are able to experience in such a short amount of time (Tbh, a lot of people living in Germany could visit the same places but just don't do it. Probably the advantage being that your family is pretty active.). Funny thought that came to my mind was a news anchor saying "And now to talk about the current state of the ocean, marine biologist and algae expert, Griffin McFall". About the carbonara, if you got the real version and not the tourist variant, the egg IS the sauce, it emulsifies with some pasta water, cheese and the fat from the guanciale (which is similar to bacon but from the cheek of the pig and air dried) and transforms into a creamy sauce. The hard part is that it has to be eaten quickly after cooking or the sauce becomes like glue when it cools down and that the egg needs to be handled very careful from becoming scrambled eggs.
Loved this episode, I especially love how you add the perspective of the kids to the travel experience :) hope you made it to Murano to see the glass manufacturers :) if you like Venice, there is a place in France that you need to see, Carcassonne in the Champagne...
Hello dear McFall family, ☀️😎🍻 I think it's nice that you travel so much, see so many things with the children, that they can discover so much with you and gain experience. You have found a very good time to discover Venice for yourself and to see this very beautiful, exciting, very historic city. Before Corona it was very exhausting, there were just too many people from a certain point in time and then it quickly stopped being a real pleasure, which is a shame. It is also exciting to see the whole thing through the eyes of your children and to hear their opinions. Like their gondolas and canals, then the Spreewald is a possible travel destination for you in the future. Highly recommended.
Oh, Venedig ist wirklich schön! Und so interessant, wegen all der kleinen Gassen. XD Ich war noch nie in Venedig. Schön, dass ihr so viel Spaß hattet. Und das Essen sieht so yummi aus! 😍
To paraphrase Ella: Venice is unique! It’s fantastic that you planned this vacation so well. Even the tour of the square was fun. BTW, I thought that the Math was very logical. 4 dogs, one for every child! 😝
Good advice to not bring to much luggage to Venice 😅 I can also NOT recommend to bring a stroller, because that is what we did a couple of years ago😅🤣 Not very handy with all the bridges, stairs and cobblestone 😅 So good to see that you had a great time! Love how much your take your kids around and show them so many parts of Europe. They will forever remember this time ❤️
One upon a time, ive been also for a week at Venice. At Newyear and my Birthday. Sooo great, amazing. A wonderful mysteries citiy. I wonder about tourists venice in one day. Like Vienna or Paris. Also cities in my heart. It was before my daughters, and everyday ive been at Harrys Bar for a Latte Machiato and the best Sandwiches and Chocolate Cake in the world 🤩💗
What I like most about your channel (in case you're interested in knowing)? Watching your kids flourish and your family's positivity altogether. This world of mine's feeling a strong need of adding more McFall family spirit to it for sure, Amen........ :-) Luv'ya guys so much!!!!
Venice is always good for a trip. I love Venice. It is very beautiful and special, not only to Americans. The canals and gondolas make it unique. Due to all the tourists visiting it is quite expensive, therefore one should shop and eat where the locals go (which is not close to the tourist attractions).
Lovely video from your trip to Venice. I have memories to that city, too, as we had our honeymoon-trip there. One little flaw: watch out for tourist traps! Looking forward to the second half of your video. Thank you.
You should go to the Schnoor quarter in the old town of Bremen they have also tiny roads and noch shops and a all year Christmas shop with unique ornaments
Hallo Superfamilie! Eine Gute Wahl nach Venedig zu Reisen! Es ist ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis was einem im Gedächtnis bleibt ,es ist einmalig auf der Welt ! Schön zu Sehen das es der ganzen Familie gefallen hat ! Viele Kulinarische Spezialitäten kann man probieren ,es ist ein Genuss ! Eis steht für mich an erster Stelle 😂😂
Venedig ist von der Architektur her etwas Besonderes. Wenn man aber gutes Essen und das Besondere an Venetien kennen lernen will, dann geht man eher in eine kleine Dorf-Osteria. wo es keine Speißekarte gibt und man sich einfach überraschen lässt was man zum Essen bekommt. Noch gibt es die, wahrscheinlich auch nur, weil alle Touristen nur nach Venedig gehen.
I think that "Spaghetti Carbonara" is originally a poor man's food. A "carbonaio" is a person that produces charcoal from wood (forno al carbone, charcoal kiln). You have some kind of pasta, a procured egg (I leave it to your interpretation how it was procured) 😉, a piece of cheese and some bacon bits, maybe you were paid in victuals for your charcoal and all that's left is pasta, cheese, bacon and egg. BTW, I'm guessing. Yes, I agree that sightseeing is quite exhausting, especially for kids. It was very thoughtful of you to let the kids release some of their energy and process impression overload from the sightseeing. Best tip ever when traveling with kids: Only one point on the sightseeing agenda per day. I believe that kids take in all the impressions rather more unfiltered than adults. With you, Sara and Kevin, as parents it is so great to see that your kids are curious about unknown foods.
Carbonara consists of guanciale (a special kind of bacon), pecorino romano (grated), egg yolks, and some black pepper. Nothing else. (No additional salt, as the guanciale and the pecorino are both already very salty.) It's a very easy and fast made meal, but in rural Germany both guanciale and pecorino may be tricky to find. There are some good instructions on the internet, but also some very bad ones, so be careful to pick a good one. Oh, and while you're at it, teach your children how to eat spaghetti, i.e. how to wind them onto the fork. It's actually pretty easy. 🙂
For another short trip to Italy you could consider Verona and the area around Lago Garda. And definitely visit the open air opera festival, even the kids will love it.
I will be in Venice in June Form the Biennale. I will go there by night train. This could also be great adventure for your family. Many destinations can be reached from Munich.
I love watching your videos, especially the travel or hiking ones. You describe everything so well and I felt like I was in Venice myself just following you around. Such a wonderful tour! Thank you! I love watching your kids! They are awesome! I'm originally from Germany but have lived in Florida almost 40 years. I frequently travel home to Nuremberg and I enjoy it so much! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful spring time!
Love your videos. This one‘s a highlight. Venice is so nice, as the name already says. Was there 10 years ago. Time to go once more. As I see nothing has changed. Only the rides are superexpensive. A big part of Venice is used in the game Assassins Creed II and if you‘ve played it before going to Venice, you recognize so much.
I was there last year. The Venice part of the island is really beautiful. The mainland part unfortunately not. However, if you stay there for one week, you should also visit the city of Verona which is also a beauty. Is not so far by train or car from Venice.
Thanks for this Venetian trip...my favorite city...can't wait to go ..just a little suggestion...you don't have to stay in Venice ..is expensive..look for something in Mestre ..the city ..we are staying in Lido de Jesolo ..and from there by boat ...more fun ...don"t forget to go to Burano and Murano
Awesome! You made it to Venice! I'm german and I wasn't in Venice yet. Wanted to go in 2019 for my 25th wedding anniversary but had to work and then covid came....maybe next year! This year we hope to go to our two times postponed trip to California in September. Fingers crossed!
great that you enjoyed it. Have you tried already the real drink chocolate yet? I like the area of Friuli Venezia Giulia but more the eastern part - Udine / Cividale/Aquileia/Gradisco D´Isonzo and my most favourite city Trieste.
What is a Venetian style Aperol Spritz like? Is it made with white wine or prosecco (sparkling wine) instead? I'm still wondering what it was originally made with. Personally, I'd rather have it with prosecco (which possibly could be Munich style).....
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Ich denke, der Herzschlag war lange nicht in Italien. Und hat nicht mitbekommen, dass es dort inzwischen ein Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetz gibt, dass sich mit dem deutschen durchaus messen kann bzw. die Züge sehr viel besser sind. Frecciarossa und Frecciargento. Mal nach Business Class trenitalia suchen in YT: ruclips.net/video/zk0tANizoT4/видео.html
What a lovely place to visit ! A significantly more economical way of exporing Venice compared to the gondola is to use the public transportation boats ("vaporetto") which take you to the surrounding isles, too. Among those, I specifically liked Burano and Giudecca as well as San Giorgio Maggiore. (Murano is too touristy imho) Did you get to visit the inside of the Doge Palace ? If not, that may constitute an excellent reason to return one day since it is absolutely stunning. The eggs are indeed in the carbonara sauce mixed with cream and bacon. One may wonder why you put this (African ?) flag in the title ?
Have you noticed the pavement tiles in the through walk-roads are all laid in portrait along the length axis of the road and the streets and alleys running dead or ending at a canal all are tiled in landscape? I saw boats there, as ambulance, police, fire brigade, cargo truck for building construction with the swing arm/crane, and, some decades ago, the early morning boat delivering piles of newspapers to the quays for the newspaper boys to distribute from there on. Then there were these wheelbarrows for distributing packages, the last mile" or so. Imagine a flat bed with 90 degrees upright wall on one side. Long pulling sticks for the person drawing them around. These sticks stuck out beyond the main wheels and the bed and at the end of these sticks tiny wheels. When the delivery man - all bridges have steps - approached the bridge, he turned the wheel barrow around in front of him and levering/sliding up/slide with the tiny wheels as cantilever point it was taken to the top of the bridge where it was turned around and the motion was mirrored dragging the wheelbarrow behind. The wheelbarrow was in aluminum or stainless steel or a combination. A year later, in an art exhibition of Renaissance painting, I saw a large ~oil (tempera maybe) of a city-scape of a square in Venice - in it delivery guys pulling identical wheelbarrows, only of wood that time. As you took the trip with the gondola, have you noticed these boats, looked on from above, have a cross section in the horizontal plane that is asymmetric like a wing of an aircraft? This is to keep the boat straight whilst rowing it asymmetrically only. That was a late invention (19th century, I guess) when the cost of labor rose. Before that, symmetric gondolas had a rower in front on one side and one in the back on the other side. Last time there, I walked by the last yard making the gondolas - they probably cost more than 100K currencies (EUR, USD, GBP) each. There's this "bus" boat that sails forth and back through the grand canal and for those that don't have the money to pay for a gondola tour, buy a ticket for the bus boat and just go to the end point and back, to the end point on the other end and back to where you started. Last time there, I visited a city palace of a high ranked Roman Catholic (cardinal maybe) in Venice and that was remarkable because originally Venice was part of the Byzantine Christian church and such Romans were frowned upon. Well, some extravagant symbolic sculpture in the palace was explained and we would frown upon that too when we know of all the things that we now know have gone wrong between priests and young people. And, you need to go to the ghetto - the Jewish quarter. The gate-doors that would be closed at night have been removed, but the street names still remind us of it. There's a kosher restaurant in it that could serve me well with my letter (A4) size allergy list without making adaptations. Very attractive Mediterranean cuisine - not "haute" but really very satisfying. And, if you go back, make sure to watch "The Merchant of Venice" movie with Al Pacino as the merchant. Note that Shakespeare's play, if ended early, seems to say that the Jewish merchant is totally right and then an epilogue was stuck onto it to pacify Christian powers. When you watch the movie, make sure you have a copy of the original text and read that along the play. Kevin: "I did not think Michelangelo was an architect": etymologically the title means "archos"="king" and "technoi"="techies or engineers or builders". In that sense he may have been a very good one.
to anyone who wants to visit Venice, here are a few tips for you. 1.find accommodation on the mainland. 2. navigating the streets with luggage will test the best relationship. 3. walk across the bridge and get lost, you will see more that way. 4. be very careful where you eat, they have 2 menus, one for the local and one for the tourists. other than that it is a pretty place.
Sarah, obviosly you've missed one tradition during your stay in Venice. You should have going with Kevin on a gondola during sunset under the bridge of sighs (Seufzerbrücke) for a big kiss. Doing so is for sealing your love for eternity. But maybe we'll able to observe it in the second part of your trip. 💖
Oh that would've been wonderful! Maybe when our kids are older we can do that. They were all asleep by the time it was dark so we couldn't leave the apartment.
Great video! Never been to Venice but intend to do so someday. At the moment too many people scare me, especially in these times😅 Concerning the flag problem.... take a look at the translation. The English version has the italian flag in it, the German version "VENEDIG - Wie man es mit Kindern genießen kann! 🇬🇳 GONDOLA-FAHRT..." has the wrong one.
I have seen a lot of american youtubers reacting to the video "why america sucks at everything". I would really live to see you doing such a video. I think you are ni millionaires, but you are a well situated family and I would want to know how you experienced the mentioned facts.
The Moment when you leave the train station for the first time and you stand in front of that majestic historic paranormal is just breathtaking. Last time i was in In Venice was Dezember 2020. In the morning at shortly bevor sunrise i was the only person walking on Markusplatz. That was a once in a lifetime experience. Although Venice is so close from where i live it was never our favorite destination because of the crowds with is sad because the Venice experience is worth it. If you go to Venice again there is a Despar Supermarket just 5 Minutes from the train station where you can buy all those Italian antipasti and yummy Italien food.AND the sore is in a former Theater so it also looks spectacular. Hope you had your Italian espresso at a bar for just 1,50 that's how Italiens have their coffee and never ever go to the Markusplatz wich is a complete ripp off in my opinion.
You did pick the best time of year to go - but at any time between May and late October, Venice is crammed with TOURISTS - simply too, too many. If a city could choke, it would.
The eggs in the carbonarra are the sauce. Raw egg yolks are blended with pecorino cheese, a little bit of pasta water. When the pasta is done it is taken off the heat, drained (some water reserved) added to the bacon pan, and then the raw egg yolks and cheese mixture added to make the most delicious sauce. The heat of the pan and the hot pasta cooks it all and it does not come out like scrambled eggs! The extra hot pasta water is in case it is a little bit thick so you can add that without ruining the sauce. So happy to see you enjoyed Venice. Ciao from Calabria.
Thanks for this explanation!
Bravo thats the most accurate explanation how real carbonara is made👍thank you
Since I can prepare this recipe perfectly, I love it even more 😋👍
Best part: "Mom, can we also have 4 dogs when having 4 dogs is awsome?" "No, we can't have 4 dogs because we have 4 kids." Loved it!
(Classic) carbonara is made like that; cook your pasta. Fry some pancetta or bacon or guancale and some garlic (optional) in a pan, then mix egg yolks (or whole eggs) with parmesan cheese. Add some pasta water to the mixture and stirr. Put your cooked pasta into the pan with bacon (and garlic) , add the egg-pasta water-parmesan mixture and stirr. Add more pasta water until you reach the level of creaminess you like. Season with freshly grounded black pepper and enjoy.
Pretty sure that garlic is not part of the classic Italian Carbonara. In fact, Italian chefs will usually lynch you for adding it. ;)
@@berlindude75 I like garlic in carbonara. Pretty sure you get lynched for adding double cream!
No parmesan allowed, only pecorino romano stagionato
4 kids needs 4 dogs, makes sense to me.. every kids needs their own dog
@@ClaudiaG.1979 Yeah, I get where that is coming from!
A children’s book that is related to Venice is “Herr der Diebe /Lord of thieves” by the German author Cornelia Funke. If you haven’t read it yet, it would be a great read for the whole family (adults included!) now that you have visited the alleys and canals where the story takes place!
Yes, I was thinking the same thing!! Loved that book as a child ... and still do. :)
Oh very cool! Thanks for the suggestion.
It's also one of the few German children books which has an english translation...it was actually quite the hit abroad, too.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife it was made into a movie too that is in english
I just wanted to recommend the same book! Yes, our son loved it and I did too!
It was funny when you said "Its just 5 hours to Venice...'. I remember when I visited a friend in San Antonio Texas as a teenager. My first time in the US and for 2 weeks they took me to see what I felt like the whole US, from beaches to mountains to prary to everything, but in reality: we had never even left the state!!! ...so Europe must really feel small to you.
Yes that’s so true! Every year we would drive 6 hours to go to the beaches to Florida for vacation so Europe does feel small. But in a good way! It’s so cool to drive 2 hours and hear another language and eat different food!
OMG! Your little girl is...unique!!!😍😍😍
"I have to change my mood" - hilarious ! What a stunningly beautiful video, thank you so much for taking us along on your trip to Venice !
I literally forgot everything around me and felt like I was there with you and your joyful family.
Just think of all the memories of their unforgettable childhood your kids will be able to cherish when they get older .
Your family is really "unique" as Ella would say ! ;)
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for watching and for always leaving such kind comments, Grandma K! 😍💗
What a beautiful video :) It touched me. This is not "content" it's "je ne sais quoi". The positive vibe, the awesome people (half father, half sherpa, Kevin is awesome: D), the cinematography, the cuts. the music. Maybe it's like a wonderful example on how to go beyond a vlog and turn it into art. Maybe I am a bit emotional at the moment but there is just so much positive power here. So all I can say is thank you for doing this, this affects me in the heart. There is a german comedian/singer (Funny Van Dannen) who called it "Die großen Gefühle". So not feelings, but great feelings. Like when you watch an opera and it touches you, or music that really reverberates in you, or a really great movie and you are like "holy Oo". So thank you so much, this video triggered some great feeling-experience in me, with the beautiful shots and all. It puts me in a mood, where I want to write poems again which I did in my youth. But thank you so much for this wonderful thing that you do. If I think about it, it could possibly be, that you guys are pretty much the coolest family on earth.
Thank you so very much! I’m so touched that the video moved and inspired you. I do love to create art with my videos and I love that you appreciate that. Your comment made my day - thank you!
Running around in different countries trying to find good bread... you're officially Germans now! ;)
😂😂 we didn’t even realize this! So funny. We just knew we had to go to the bakery every morning for good bread!
Your kids are so lucky to grow up in your family :-) Your are so open minded and interested in everything. That is a real blessing! I know a lot of people who hardly every leave their homes because they are not interested. Your family is great and I'm looking forward to every new episode! What I really would like to ask is if your children sometimes miss your American home and would like to go back?
Some weeks ago, you had a nice trip to Venice and today, I had a nice half hour of watching your venician experiencies and thrills.
I guess, you were filming almost the whole time, you spent on this journey.
Thank you so much for doing this great job and for presenting on YT.
Morgen, Klaus! 😀 Yeah I bet it looks like I film constantly but I don’t. This was 30 minutes out of 4 days. So there’s a lot of time when we were relaxing and enjoying ourselves!
"We want them to have these special memories at their travels you keep well into adulthood."
It's heartwarming to hear that there are still parents who think this way. Your children will grow up to be something great.
I sure hope so, thank you! They will probably still need some therapy, but we are trying our best. 🤪🙏🏻
Hallo, ich sehe Eure Videos mit großem Vergnügen, es ist schön zu sehen das Ihr in Deutschland angekommen seid. Wir sind verliebt in Venedig und mindestens jedes zweite Jahr dort, wir haben eine entspannte Anreise da wir mit dem Nachtzug von Salzburg direkt nach Venedig fahren und morgens um 8Uhr direkt am Bahnhof Venice ankommen. Es sind dann nur noch ein paar Schritte zum Vaporetto (Wasserbus), wir haben auch immer ein wundervolles Apartment mit tollem Blick auf die Stadt. Venedig ist soviel mehr als Rialto und Markusplatz, dabei etwas abseits von dem Trubel nicht teurer als bei uns am Waginger See/ Bayern. Vielleicht ist es interessant für Euch ein paar Tipps zu Venedig zu erhalten.
Viele Grüße Werner
Thanks for this incredibly enjoyable trip! I had always heard that the Venetians don't like the tourists and were unfriendly to them, so although I've lived in Bavaria for almost 30 years I haven't wanted to go there. Now you've changed my mind! It looks amazing! Thanks!
We found the local shop owners to be very nice. But we always greeted them in Italian, so I’m sure that helps.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Yes, I'm sure. We always try to use at least a little of the local language wherever we go and find it makes so much difference. 👍 The timing of your trip may also have helped. Even Venice was virtually empty during the worst of the pandemic. Maybe they're happy to have business again?
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife On the one hand, yes, Venice IS a stunning town with an incredible flair- on the other hand (sorry, if I sound like a grouch) it is a huge tourist trap. Long time ago in 1987 my mom was there with me, there were a lot of overpriced restaurants (if you sit outside and there are musicians playing, the restaurant puts them on your bill!) and kitschy souvenir shops. For Venice the masses of tourists are bless and curse- they bring a lot of money into the town, but they clog the streets and the Venetians feel bothered in their hometown. In Italy I would recommend other towns for a visit: Verona (Gardasee-area), Florence, Rome (a very stressful town, in the time from spring until fall also overcrowed with tourists). For sometime I still plan a trip to beautiful Naples (attention: A lot of pickpockets) and the islands Capri/Ischia.
My grandfather learned to speak Italian very well, he and my grandma often travelled in Italy and knew the whole country.
@@kaleigh4081 I think staying in Jesolo or near the Gardasee/in Verona and visiting Venice for a day is smarter.
We rented a flat with sea view in spring for a week in Jesolo and went for a day to Venice.
@@sollte1239 Thanks, good idea. We've been to the beautiful Garda Lake a few times and did take a day trip to Verona one day. It's also beautiful. Our trip to Rome was also amazing, but, as you say, very crowded.
"We can't have 4 dogs because we have 4 children" 😂
On a serious talk, looks like such an exotic place to go with just 5 hours of driving and the bread looks amazing!
Glad that you have the possibilities to show your kids around in Europe and let them explore!
Living so close to many countries definitely helps;)
Yeah it really does. We never could’ve afforded to pay for this trip from the US!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife only if Kevin had put in some extra hours at work;)
This face of Griffin when you told him you have 4 kids instead of 4 dogs...priceless
Ha, I was waiting for Griffin arguing that they really need 4 dogs, to each kid their own 😉😄......
😂😂 nope I don’t need 4 dogs when I already have 4 kids!!
😂😂 nope I don’t need 4 dogs when I already have 4 kids!!
you chose the best time to go. In July and August it's more like Disneyland - so many tourists. It's beautiful and I enjoyed it very much
I can imagine! I would NOT want to be there in the summer!
Venice is not only a longing destination for Americans. My father's (born 1919) first vacation and at the same time his first voluntary trip abroad took him to Venice in the first half of the 1950s. By motorcycle.
Very cool!
was für wundervolle Eltern ihr seid! 🌈
Adorable! The titles add a nice touch. Really peaceful video to watch...
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
When you see Venice while listing to Vivaldi , it all makes sense somehow ;) It's nice to see you people went of the beaten track and spend some time in the less tourist areas. Every building has quint little things, strange symbols, statues , etc, etc, I have been there so often, and still discover something new everytime .
Yes!! Glad you appreciated that. 🎶
Vivaldi is great.
I would add Rondò Veneziano to the playlist ;-)
Fantastic video, great editing, mood, and storytelling.
Thank you very much!
wow. You had a great time. We only have 2 kids and that already is a lot of work. Thank you for everything.
What a wonderful video, it made my day😊
... Euer Umgang mit den Kindern, Eure ganze Familie, ist sehr sehr sympathisch.
Greetings from Friesland😉
Vielen dank! Did you see our video about Ostfrisicher tee last week? :)
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Moin... yes I did.... But sorry, I personally "hate" tea🙄😂
@@yaellevondrauen4009 hahaha you’re a Frisian rebel then, I guess! 😉
Lovely, Sara! I‘m going soon and really looking forward to it, even more since seeing your video. I don’t need to change my mood lol!
Hahaha Griffin is such a ham! So cool you're going soon, Lauren! I hope you have an amazing time!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife thank you, Sara! We just watched it again together. It’s such a lovely video, but also very informative. I love the children‘s reactions on the gondola, and the half sherpa comment is so funny. We can identify, just with our two doggies!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife ps all your laundry detergent videos are being suggested to me… are you trying to tell me something?! 😂
An Italian friend gave us some good advice for our Venice vacation: get a hotel in Venice, not on the mainland. Get up early and conquer the city. Have a late breakfast and rest until the afternoon, then escape the heat and mass tourism. Enjoy the evening with bread and wine while cooling your feet in the canals. It was wonderful.
You may have been lucky that the big ships weren't allowed in yet. Usually they arrive at 9am and thousands of tourists (many Chinese) flood the city, so you can't put one foot in front of the other.
In the morning and evening you have Venice to yourself and can enjoy the Italian way of life.
That’s a great tip from your friend! Seeing the city early in the morning would be ideal. They should stop allowing those cruise ships! How they must cheapen everything. Too many tourists all at once, more than the city can hold.
15:25 This sounds like a tarantella, a typical Naples song and dance
Yes it is a Tarantella, good ear!
A very pleasant, colourful video and so nice to watch you all, enjoying a wonderful time. Thank you for sharing. It is soul warming! Great experience for your kids! Have a pleasant Sunday and stay healthy! :-) (P.S. Here in Augsburg, we have a Mozart house, now a museum. He once lived here.)
Hi Hildegard! Thank you for your nice comments, we appreciate them. So glad you enjoyed the video. 😍
That Kramladen looked amazing!
Great tour, Sara! Wonderful that you are living so close, this is why you live in Germany! So centrally located.
Yes! So centrally located here! It’s a huge bonus.
Brava. An absolutely charming tour of Venice.
So glad you enjoyed it! 🤩
Lovely video that captured the air of Venice, Italy. Thank you. My last visit to Venice was cut short by a big flood.
Oh that’s too bad! We saw the signs of that flood - was it in 2018? There were marks on the buildings from the flood waters.
You are right Sara at the Beginning of this video when you said and in Five hours you will be in Venice.
That is so nice about Europe the closesness. My relative lives near Stuttgart airport is only 75 miles from the French border and 105 miles to Swiss border.
Yes! Such a good part about living in Europe.
Very nice video! Thank you for your work! Have a nice day!
Thank you!
Wonderful video!!
Venedig ist wirklich eine Stadt mit einzigartigem Flair, dem man sich nicht entziehen kann. Schön, daß ihr sie besichtigen konntet. Die Kinder werden diese Erfahrungen nie vergessen.
Ich war bislang nur einmal dort - als Tagesausflug während eines Urlaubs in Südtirol. Obwohl es nur ein Tag war, sind dabei auch bei mir nachhaltige Eindrücke entstanden.
P.S.: Ich freue mich schon auf den zweiten Teil.
Naja ich finde es gibt einige Italienische Städte mit Flair, die nicht ganz so teuer und überlaufen sind
@@sollte1239 Das stimmt freilich auch. Trotzdem bleibt Venedig einzigartig.
First One!
Anyway, You guys are living it large - Good for you!
WOW! Your car has panoramics 1:32 ... That is so cool! Stargazing is awesome.
🥇🥇 congrats! First one! 😄
:-) It's a "Fladenbrot" or Focaccia 6:54 in Italian
Funny thing:
A Fladenbrot looks like a Kuhfladen (cow dung), hence the name, I guess :-)
@@KevinJohnBusche because they heatet the fire with dryed kuhfladen
@@Miristzuheiss Didn't see that coming - Thanks! Does this technically mean, it's poo-baked?
Looks like you had a fabulous trip and the kids enjoyed it too! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Gillian!
My favourite in Venice is late at night, sitting in the bow of the vaporetto, on Canale Grande with the iluminated palaces and looking out for painted ceilings through the windows.
Oh now that sounds lovely!
The first working mirror after the tried of the Romans was made in Venice about 500 years ago, which is why the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles was feasible. Before that, there was no really clear image to see, because the mirror image was not really sharp, but blurred. Earlier mirrors were made of polished metal surfaces.
Der erste funktionierende Spiegel nach den Versuchen der Römer wurde in Venedig vor ca. 500 Jahren hergestellt, deswegen war auch der Spiegelsaal von Versailles realisierbar. Davor gab es kein wirklich klares Bild zu sehen, denn das Spiegelbild war nicht wirklich scharf, sondern verschwommen. Frühere Spiegel waren aus polieren Metallflächen.
I am sure your kids will have some wonderful memories for their whole life. Maybe they don t remember every historic fact, but they will have this feeling of joy , happiness, "dreamy water"....
Yes! They won't remember all of the history but they will remember that they went to Venice. And then when they're adults they may be excited to go back and really learn the history.
Beautiful video! I love that Americans are so excited to travel only 5 hours or less, to be in another country and culture. It never ceases to amaze them. On the flip side, when Europeans come to the U.S., you can travel 10 hours or more by car, and still be in the same state (see Texas, California, Florida). A colleague of mine when we lived in Dallas, had 2 aunties visiting from the U.K. They wanted to take a short day trip to the beaches in Florida. That made me laugh out loud. ;)
😂 now that is funny - a short day trip from Texas to Florida? That’s super far away! I’d never consider that a day trip.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife, the aunties had no idea of the dimensions of this country. They thought it was only a hop and skip away. :)
There are some of us Europeans who do understand distances, though. I come from Central Scotland and in the days before air travel became affordable, our annual trip to near Paris to stay with our French grandparents took 25 hours by train and boat or a minimum of 24 hours by car. Getting to an island in the North of Germany in the 1970s meant a 36 hour trip, with at least 8 changes of transport (bus, several trains, at least one ferry, sometimes air taxi when the tide was wrong. So when I was visiting my sister in Colorado, it was more than enough touring the Four Corners region and south Wyoming. Five states in five weeks is probably pretty good going. I didn't actually expect to be able to do as much.
The South of Bavaria is pretty well placed for closeness to other countries. Hamburg to Venice would probably take at least 14 hours.
@@supernova19805 that’s too funny!
@@alicemilne1444 yeah that’s the reason we haven’t been to Hamburg yet. We’d have to fly because a 14 hour drive is awful with our 4 kids! Only if we could do it in a camper and see Germany along the way.
You’re such a lovely family. You and Kevin are such good parents!
There’s a lovely island you can go to by boat from Venice. I can’t remember the name of it, but it has stores that specialize in lace. And each house is painted a different bright colour! It’s just beautiful!
Oh wow, we didn’t know about that! We also wanted to visit Murano and Burano but we just didn’t have the time.
I was excited to see you arrive in Mestre. When I was taking the train to Italy to go to my cousins wedding (most of my family that is still alive is Italian) and two of my uncles picked me up in Mestre to go to the area where most of my family live, which is just over an hour away from Mestre. It amazes me how much your children are able to experience in such a short amount of time (Tbh, a lot of people living in Germany could visit the same places but just don't do it. Probably the advantage being that your family is pretty active.).
Funny thought that came to my mind was a news anchor saying "And now to talk about the current state of the ocean, marine biologist and algae expert, Griffin McFall".
About the carbonara, if you got the real version and not the tourist variant, the egg IS the sauce, it emulsifies with some pasta water, cheese and the fat from the guanciale (which is similar to bacon but from the cheek of the pig and air dried) and transforms into a creamy sauce. The hard part is that it has to be eaten quickly after cooking or the sauce becomes like glue when it cools down and that the egg needs to be handled very careful from becoming scrambled eggs.
Loved this episode, I especially love how you add the perspective of the kids to the travel experience :) hope you made it to Murano to see the glass manufacturers :) if you like Venice, there is a place in France that you need to see, Carcassonne in the Champagne...
So glad you enjoyed hearing from the kids! It’s fun because they see the word in a totally different way than we do.
Hello dear McFall family, ☀️😎🍻
I think it's nice that you travel so much, see so many things with the children, that they can discover so much with you and gain experience. You have found a very good time to discover Venice for yourself and to see this very beautiful, exciting, very historic city. Before Corona it was very exhausting, there were just too many people from a certain point in time and then it quickly stopped being a real pleasure, which is a shame. It is also exciting to see the whole thing through the eyes of your children and to hear their opinions.
Like their gondolas and canals, then the Spreewald is a possible travel destination for you in the future. Highly recommended.
Yeah it's like the city needs to limit the number of tourists. It really got out of control, especially with cruise ships coming in by the day.
Oh, Venedig ist wirklich schön! Und so interessant, wegen all der kleinen Gassen. XD Ich war noch nie in Venedig. Schön, dass ihr so viel Spaß hattet. Und das Essen sieht so yummi aus! 😍
Ja! Es ist sehr schön!
18:34 Hihi, Anselm Kiefer exhibition! ;-)
You need to go to the Spreewald as the kids had fun travelling by Gondola!
Yes!! I do want to get up there and see it. It looks amazing!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife it is very lovely. And there are so many lakes close by.
When we went there in 2001, I don't had the opportunity to do a canal boad tour , so I enjoyed it today going with you.
Awe nice!
To paraphrase Ella: Venice is unique! It’s fantastic that you planned this vacation so well. Even the tour of the square was fun.
BTW, I thought that the Math was very logical. 4 dogs, one for every child! 😝
Hahahaha don’t tell our kids that! I’ll lose my mind if we have 4 dogs!
Good advice to not bring to much luggage to Venice 😅 I can also NOT recommend to bring a stroller, because that is what we did a couple of years ago😅🤣 Not very handy with all the bridges, stairs and cobblestone 😅 So good to see that you had a great time! Love how much your take your kids around and show them so many parts of Europe. They will forever remember this time ❤️
Oh yes that’s true! I saw many parents struggling with strollers when we were there and I felt bad for them!
One upon a time, ive been also for a week at Venice. At Newyear and my Birthday. Sooo great, amazing. A wonderful mysteries citiy. I wonder about tourists venice in one day. Like Vienna or Paris. Also cities in my heart. It was before my daughters, and everyday ive been at Harrys Bar for a Latte Machiato and the best Sandwiches and Chocolate Cake in the world 🤩💗
Glad you enjoyed the city. I agree - it is so beautiful and mysterious!
If he is to fight three creepers,
Grayson should consider enchanting his gear ^^
Blast Protection on the Chestplate would certainly help ^^
What I like most about your channel (in case you're interested in knowing)? Watching your kids flourish and your family's positivity altogether. This world of mine's feeling a strong need of adding more McFall family spirit to it for sure, Amen........ :-) Luv'ya guys so much!!!!
Thank you so very much, we appreciate your kind comment! 💗
Venice is always good for a trip. I love Venice. It is very beautiful and special, not only to Americans. The canals and gondolas make it unique. Due to all the tourists visiting it is quite expensive, therefore one should shop and eat where the locals go (which is not close to the tourist attractions).
I so agree - it’s so special and unique, but also so expensive unless you eat where locals eat.
Lovely video from your trip to Venice. I have memories to that city, too, as we had our honeymoon-trip there. One little flaw: watch out for tourist traps!
Looking forward to the second half of your video. Thank you.
You should go to the Schnoor quarter in the old town of Bremen they have also tiny roads and noch shops and a all year Christmas shop with unique ornaments
Oh very nice! I’d love to see that.
Hallo Superfamilie! Eine Gute Wahl nach Venedig zu Reisen! Es ist ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis was einem im Gedächtnis bleibt ,es ist einmalig auf der Welt ! Schön zu Sehen das es der ganzen Familie gefallen hat ! Viele Kulinarische Spezialitäten kann man probieren ,es ist ein Genuss ! Eis steht für mich an erster Stelle 😂😂
ja aber nicht da. es gibt wohl bessere locations um die italienische Küche kennenzulernen.
Oooh ja, die Kinder würden dir zustimmen, dass Eis an erster Stelle steht! Vielen Dank für Ihre freundlichen Kommentare.
Venedig ist von der Architektur her etwas Besonderes. Wenn man aber gutes Essen und das Besondere an Venetien kennen lernen will, dann geht man eher in eine kleine Dorf-Osteria. wo es keine Speißekarte gibt und man sich einfach überraschen lässt was man zum Essen bekommt. Noch gibt es die, wahrscheinlich auch nur, weil alle Touristen nur nach Venedig gehen.
I think that "Spaghetti Carbonara" is originally a poor man's food. A "carbonaio" is a person that produces charcoal from wood (forno al carbone, charcoal kiln). You have some kind of pasta, a procured egg (I leave it to your interpretation how it was procured) 😉, a piece of cheese and some bacon bits, maybe you were paid in victuals for your charcoal and all that's left is pasta, cheese, bacon and egg.
BTW, I'm guessing.
Yes, I agree that sightseeing is quite exhausting, especially for kids. It was very thoughtful of you to let the kids release some of their energy and process impression overload from the sightseeing. Best tip ever when traveling with kids: Only one point on the sightseeing agenda per day. I believe that kids take in all the impressions rather more unfiltered than adults.
With you, Sara and Kevin, as parents it is so great to see that your kids are curious about unknown foods.
Very nice video. May I ask how long does it take for you to edit this video?
Ooo good question. A good 15-20 hours!
15:57 Kevin ist such a great father! All men should be more like Kevin, I think. :)
Yes! He is a really awesome father. 😍
sooooo cool good job 😉
Carbonara consists of guanciale (a special kind of bacon), pecorino romano (grated), egg yolks, and some black pepper. Nothing else. (No additional salt, as the guanciale and the pecorino are both already very salty.) It's a very easy and fast made meal, but in rural Germany both guanciale and pecorino may be tricky to find. There are some good instructions on the internet, but also some very bad ones, so be careful to pick a good one.
Oh, and while you're at it, teach your children how to eat spaghetti, i.e. how to wind them onto the fork. It's actually pretty easy. 🙂
For another short trip to Italy you could consider Verona and the area around Lago Garda. And definitely visit the open air opera festival, even the kids will love it.
Oh cool! Yeah we do want to visit Lake Garda at some point.
Yes, one of the most impotant Italian words is .... Gelato!
(Icecream! at 19:31)
I think you got cioccolato gelato ;-)
Great video - triggered great memories
Than it might be interesting for you to visit the Spreewald in Brandenburg. Formertimes also only waterways.
I will be in Venice in June Form the Biennale. I will go there by night train. This could also be great adventure for your family. Many destinations can be reached from Munich.
Nice family trip 🥰
I love watching your videos, especially the travel or hiking ones. You describe everything so well and I felt like I was in Venice myself just following you around. Such a wonderful tour! Thank you! I love watching your kids! They are awesome! I'm originally from Germany but have lived in Florida almost 40 years. I frequently travel home to Nuremberg and I enjoy it so much! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful spring time!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!
Love your videos. This one‘s a highlight. Venice is so nice, as the name already says. Was there 10 years ago. Time to go once more. As I see nothing has changed. Only the rides are superexpensive.
A big part of Venice is used in the game Assassins Creed II and if you‘ve played it before going to Venice, you recognize so much.
Oh cool to know that Venice is in that video game!
next time take a roundtrip via Boat, also maybe take a drop on Murano, this is the Production Center where all the Venice Glas is coming from
Yes! We will do that on a future trip. Didn't have enough time on this trip.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife for the next trip i send you a mail :)
I was there last year. The Venice part of the island is really beautiful. The mainland part unfortunately not. However, if you stay there for one week, you should also visit the city of Verona which is also a beauty. Is not so far by train or car from Venice.
I think staying in Verona or near the gardasea is cleverer.
Yeah we will have to make another trip to see Verona sometime!
Thanks for this Venetian trip...my favorite city...can't wait to go ..just a little suggestion...you don't have to stay in Venice ..is expensive..look for something in Mestre ..the city ..we are staying in Lido de Jesolo ..and from there by boat ...more fun ...don"t forget to go to Burano and Murano
Awesome! You made it to Venice! I'm german and I wasn't in Venice yet. Wanted to go in 2019 for my 25th wedding anniversary but had to work and then covid came....maybe next year! This year we hope to go to our two times postponed trip to California in September. Fingers crossed!
Oh I hope you get to go soon! It's definitely worth it.
great that you enjoyed it. Have you tried already the real drink chocolate yet?
I like the area of Friuli Venezia Giulia but more the eastern part - Udine / Cividale/Aquileia/Gradisco D´Isonzo and my most favourite city Trieste.
Oh cool! No we haven’t tried that yet!
What a beautyfull trip to Venezia 😻 Thank you For Talking US with you 🥰
Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it!
What is a Venetian style Aperol Spritz like? Is it made with white wine or prosecco (sparkling wine) instead? I'm still wondering what it was originally made with. Personally, I'd rather have it with prosecco (which possibly could be Munich style).....
Yes it’s made with Prosecco! Much better than white wine, I agree, the bubbles make it feel more special.
2:24 Oh, in Italien gibt es inzwischen auch moderne Züge! ;)
Schon mal was vom frecciargento gehört?
Haben wir gesagt, dass es keine modernen Züge gibt? Ich bin verwirrt. :)
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Ich denke, der Herzschlag war lange nicht in Italien. Und hat nicht mitbekommen, dass es dort inzwischen ein Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetz gibt, dass sich mit dem deutschen durchaus messen kann bzw. die Züge sehr viel besser sind. Frecciarossa und Frecciargento. Mal nach Business Class trenitalia suchen in YT: ruclips.net/video/zk0tANizoT4/видео.html
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Absolut nicht. Sie können beruhigt sein.
@@V100-e5q Nein, dachte die fahren da nur mit V100! ;)
Coming from Germany I was just once in Venice, on my Honeymoon. That was in 1980, and from what I see Venice hasn't changed a bit, not at all !
Really! Wow that’s amazing that it hasn’t changed.
yeah! McFalls wilde ride through Europe.
😜😂😂 watch out Europe, here we come!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife LOL. your children are adorable. Ella is so sweet! Little Lady
What a lovely place to visit ! A significantly more economical way of exporing Venice compared to the gondola is to use the public transportation boats ("vaporetto") which take you to the surrounding isles, too. Among those, I specifically liked Burano and Giudecca as well as San Giorgio Maggiore. (Murano is too touristy imho) Did you get to visit the inside of the Doge Palace ? If not, that may constitute an excellent reason to return one day since it is absolutely stunning.
The eggs are indeed in the carbonara sauce mixed with cream and bacon.
One may wonder why you put this (African ?) flag in the title ?
Grayson: Does it mean we can have four dogs? Mom: No because we have four children (implied: that is more than enough trouble!). LOL
Yes exactly! We have GENUG! LOLOLOL
Have you noticed the pavement tiles in the through walk-roads are all laid in portrait along the length axis of the road and the streets and alleys running dead or ending at a canal all are tiled in landscape?
I saw boats there, as ambulance, police, fire brigade, cargo truck for building construction with the swing arm/crane, and, some decades ago, the early morning boat delivering piles of newspapers to the quays for the newspaper boys to distribute from there on.
Then there were these wheelbarrows for distributing packages, the last mile" or so. Imagine a flat bed with 90 degrees upright wall on one side. Long pulling sticks for the person drawing them around. These sticks stuck out beyond the main wheels and the bed and at the end of these sticks tiny wheels. When the delivery man - all bridges have steps - approached the bridge, he turned the wheel barrow around in front of him and levering/sliding up/slide with the tiny wheels as cantilever point it was taken to the top of the bridge where it was turned around and the motion was mirrored dragging the wheelbarrow behind. The wheelbarrow was in aluminum or stainless steel or a combination.
A year later, in an art exhibition of Renaissance painting, I saw a large ~oil (tempera maybe) of a city-scape of a square in Venice - in it delivery guys pulling identical wheelbarrows, only of wood that time.
As you took the trip with the gondola, have you noticed these boats, looked on from above, have a cross section in the horizontal plane that is asymmetric like a wing of an aircraft? This is to keep the boat straight whilst rowing it asymmetrically only. That was a late invention (19th century, I guess) when the cost of labor rose. Before that, symmetric gondolas had a rower in front on one side and one in the back on the other side.
Last time there, I walked by the last yard making the gondolas - they probably cost more than 100K currencies (EUR, USD, GBP) each.
There's this "bus" boat that sails forth and back through the grand canal and for those that don't have the money to pay for a gondola tour, buy a ticket for the bus boat and just go to the end point and back, to the end point on the other end and back to where you started.
Last time there, I visited a city palace of a high ranked Roman Catholic (cardinal maybe) in Venice and that was remarkable because originally Venice was part of the Byzantine Christian church and such Romans were frowned upon. Well, some extravagant symbolic sculpture in the palace was explained and we would frown upon that too when we know of all the things that we now know have gone wrong between priests and young people.
And, you need to go to the ghetto - the Jewish quarter. The gate-doors that would be closed at night have been removed, but the street names still remind us of it. There's a kosher restaurant in it that could serve me well with my letter (A4) size allergy list without making adaptations. Very attractive Mediterranean cuisine - not "haute" but really very satisfying.
And, if you go back, make sure to watch "The Merchant of Venice" movie with Al Pacino as the merchant. Note that Shakespeare's play, if ended early, seems to say that the Jewish merchant is totally right and then an epilogue was stuck onto it to pacify Christian powers. When you watch the movie, make sure you have a copy of the original text and read that along the play.
Kevin: "I did not think Michelangelo was an architect": etymologically the title means "archos"="king" and "technoi"="techies or engineers or builders". In that sense he may have been a very good one.
We didn't notice that about the pavement tiles - how cool!
08:42min loooooooooooooool so true and so funny ;-)
to anyone who wants to visit Venice, here are a few tips for you.
1.find accommodation on the mainland.
2. navigating the streets with luggage will test the best relationship.
3. walk across the bridge and get lost, you will see more that way.
4. be very careful where you eat, they have 2 menus, one for the local and one for the tourists.
other than that it is a pretty place.
You also should visit the dutch venice Giethoorn wenn you might come to the netherlands
Sarah, obviosly you've missed one tradition during your stay in Venice. You should have going with Kevin on a gondola during sunset under the bridge of sighs (Seufzerbrücke) for a big kiss. Doing so is for sealing your love for eternity. But maybe we'll able to observe it in the second part of your trip. 💖
Oh that would've been wonderful! Maybe when our kids are older we can do that. They were all asleep by the time it was dark so we couldn't leave the apartment.
Great video! Never been to Venice but intend to do so someday. At the moment too many people scare me, especially in these times😅
Concerning the flag problem.... take a look at the translation. The English version has the italian flag in it, the German version "VENEDIG - Wie man es mit Kindern genießen kann! 🇬🇳 GONDOLA-FAHRT..." has the wrong one.
Oh! Okay it’s in the translations. Ah thank you, I couldn’t find where that error was.
food is normaly very good in italy. I can see you agree. I will go to the piemont in 3 weeks. Near Alba. :-)
Yes! It’s so good.
I have seen a lot of american youtubers reacting to the video "why america sucks at everything". I would really live to see you doing such a video.
I think you are ni millionaires, but you are a well situated family and I would want to know how you experienced the mentioned facts.
That would be interesting! I’ll have to check it out.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife would be amazing
The Moment when you leave the train station for the first time and you stand in front of that majestic historic paranormal is just breathtaking. Last time i was in In Venice was Dezember 2020. In the morning at shortly bevor sunrise i was the only person walking on Markusplatz. That was a once in a lifetime experience. Although Venice is so close from where i live it was never our favorite destination because of the crowds with is sad because the Venice experience is worth it. If you go to Venice again there is a Despar Supermarket just 5 Minutes from the train station where you can buy all those Italian antipasti and yummy Italien food.AND the sore is in a former Theater so it also looks spectacular. Hope you had your Italian espresso at a bar for just 1,50 that's how Italiens have their coffee and never ever go to the Markusplatz wich is a complete ripp off in my opinion.
Such great tips, thank you! Yes that view when you get out of the train station is just amazing!
You should have tried "sarde in saor"
You did pick the best time of year to go - but at any time between May and late October, Venice is crammed with TOURISTS - simply too, too many. If a city could choke, it would.
Oh man 😖 that sounds horrible! And it was nice and cool, not hot at all. I think it would be miserable in the heat with a ton of tourists. No thanks!
La Prossima volta dovete venire a Vicenza, dove abito, un'ora di treno da Venezia.
Vicenza è molto bella, è chiamata la città del Palladio.
Oh, molto figo! Grazie.
How much is a mineral water and a cup of coffee in a café there?
Well I'm not sure about the coffee because i made it at the apartment each morning. But Gelato was 2,50 euros I think.
Take the boat and go to Lido de Jesolo to the beach ..and take the boat to your Murano Burano is a must ..you will call in love
No we can not have 4 dogs because we have 4 children, right on point 😂😂
RIGHT?! No way no way...
Gelato! 😍
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@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife 😃 I am so glad you can get italian ice cream here in Germany! A true blessing.