Venice 28-6-2013

Yesterday we woke up in our room in Milan and saw that there was a random guy there… (he was our roommate, he was supposed to be there.  Not a stalker.)  Then we left really early, like organised people, and had breakfast in the station at Milan.

We had croissants and… Krappuccinos.  It was pretty good, despite what the name says :P

Then we got on the train thinking it was the right one, but then found that we didn’t have seats.  Apparently the travel agent booked the ticket on the wrong day.

So we travelled in front of the men’s toilet for a while until the ticket checker guy found us and told us to get off at the next stop, so we wouldn’t get a fine for being there illegally, despite having a ticket… a useless ticket.  Good thing he kind of spoke English.

So we landed in a place called Brescia and stayed in the café for a few hours.  We were so bored that we tried to remember all the Japanese prefectures.

1st attempt (with random Australia).
Japan was too small  for everything to fit in

2nd attempt.  Japan was too big for the paper this time.
Forgot Ibaraki...

Then we boarded the right train and finally went to Venice.  First we went to our accommodation to drop off our stuff, but we missed the bus stop, because there are no names and ended up walking by the side of the road on the non-existent sidewalk until we made it to the camping place.  (We couldn’t afford to actually live in Venice.)

Although, it nice because it had lots of light, the camping toilets and showers had lockable doors, hot water and for once a camping place wasn’t really dirty and creepy. Nice!

Then we took the bus back to Venice (island) and touristed (is this is a word?  It is now.)  First we took the… sea bus? (ferry) over to St Marco and walked around a bit.  Then did the first touristy thing, eat real Italian food in actually Venice, Italy.

Us on the boat

St Marco

Spaghetti was awesome

Then we walked around the little streets, over little bridges and canals and found the actual St Marco and a church that was having Mass.

There were also lots of awesome carnival shops, which sold masks.

As well as other awesome stuff, which only fuelled our Harry Potter obsession.

Then we fulfilled one of my life long dreams and item off my bucket list, which was to ride on a Gondola in Venice (before it sinks, which might be in a few 100 years, but who cares.)  It was pretty expensive (100 Euros together for the basic package), but fun.

line of gondolas 

In between a court house and a jail

Gondola guy in the background

Evidence, evidence!!!!!

Apparently some of these buildings were made in the late 13C…
which is older than my country.

Sunset… what time was that?  9pm?

Yeah, close enough

Then we went back to our awesome camping cabin.  We payed for Wi-Fi, but it never worked, so we got bored and wrote letters to our beloved Pot-Kun 

And played French music, so we couldn’t hear the creepy neighbours next door. 

P.S this is another situation where I have videos, but due to the fact that I’m writing this blog in McDonalds I doubt I’ll be uploading it anytime soon.  Think of them as surprises, or OMAKE if they ever get uploaded.

OMAKE:

What the travel book said to do	What we did
Don’t visit Venice in one day	Visited Venice in 1 day
Don’t visit Venice in Summer	Visited Venice in Summer
Go in March or October for carnival	Didn’t do that either…
Tatiana’s grandmother said: The Gondolas are rip-offs	Went on the expensive Gondola
Visit the museums	Didn’t go inside a single building
Visit the Biennale	Vaguely saw it from the ferry