After leaving Rome we had a six hour bus trip to Venice. We got there late & had a 3 course dinner at about 9pm - I am going to explode after this trip! I know I don’t have to eat it all but……..well you know. The photo at the table just before we started pigging out is (from left to right) Monica, yours truly, Rimi, Judy & Kate (I now have a room mate & it’s Kate - she is a Brisbane girl).
The next morning we all caught the local bus to Venice & our Topdeck guide Roma (who is Lithuanian) gave us a walking tour & explained some of the history of Venice. We then had the option to go on a Gondola ride & about half of us did. A lot of people thought it would be a waste as you can see the city just by walking around. But come on - you can’t go all the way to Venice & not go on a Gondola! Oh yeah, the other reason for some of the girls was because it’s a romantic thing to do & they want to wait until they come back with a man.
Blah, blah, blah, vomit, vomit, vomit.
Okay fine....... it would be nice to do a gondola ride with someone you love but what if you never get back there?
Want to go to Italy Joyce? It’s the kind of thing we should do! Maybe we’ve already done it in our previous life.
Sorry, getting slightly off track there.
After the gondola we had free time so we found a restaurant to have some lunch & then wandered around (slightly aimlessly) shopping & getting lost. Which is very easy to do in Venice & it's half the fun of going there. We lost a few of the boys from lunch as I think they could see that we were going into every shop possible & bailed as early as they could.
Venice is famous for (apart from the obvious of being an island of canals) Murano glass & those masks people wear at masquerade balls. It is also famous for expensive food & drink. It costs 1.80 euro to have a latte at the bar but 8.50 to have it outside at the tables. Convert that into dollars - it’s almost a deposit on a house!!!!!
I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I would be with Venice as it’s more run down than I had imagined & not as pretty either. I still loved it though but I guess I am comparing all the architecture to Amsterdam which I thought was just wonderful.
We found somewhere fairly cheap to have dinner & got back to the hotel about 9ish after catching a water bus back to where we needed to catch the local bus.
The next morning we all caught the local bus to Venice & our Topdeck guide Roma (who is Lithuanian) gave us a walking tour & explained some of the history of Venice. We then had the option to go on a Gondola ride & about half of us did. A lot of people thought it would be a waste as you can see the city just by walking around. But come on - you can’t go all the way to Venice & not go on a Gondola! Oh yeah, the other reason for some of the girls was because it’s a romantic thing to do & they want to wait until they come back with a man.
Blah, blah, blah, vomit, vomit, vomit.
Okay fine....... it would be nice to do a gondola ride with someone you love but what if you never get back there?
Want to go to Italy Joyce? It’s the kind of thing we should do! Maybe we’ve already done it in our previous life.
Sorry, getting slightly off track there.
After the gondola we had free time so we found a restaurant to have some lunch & then wandered around (slightly aimlessly) shopping & getting lost. Which is very easy to do in Venice & it's half the fun of going there. We lost a few of the boys from lunch as I think they could see that we were going into every shop possible & bailed as early as they could.
Venice is famous for (apart from the obvious of being an island of canals) Murano glass & those masks people wear at masquerade balls. It is also famous for expensive food & drink. It costs 1.80 euro to have a latte at the bar but 8.50 to have it outside at the tables. Convert that into dollars - it’s almost a deposit on a house!!!!!
I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I would be with Venice as it’s more run down than I had imagined & not as pretty either. I still loved it though but I guess I am comparing all the architecture to Amsterdam which I thought was just wonderful.
We found somewhere fairly cheap to have dinner & got back to the hotel about 9ish after catching a water bus back to where we needed to catch the local bus.
The other photos are Rimi, Me, Fran, Judy & Luke just trying to make a photo more interesting. Me in front of the Bell Tower in Piazza St. Marco (just near St. Marco's Church) & Judy, Rimi, Daniel, Me & Fran in the gondola.
St. Marco’s church & piazza.
St. Marco’s church & piazza.
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