Tuesday, September 19, 2006
13 September, 06
A Day in Venezia!
We woke up at 6am and had to drive to Verona in order to catch the train to Venice. It took about 45 minutes and we found a free parking at the station. We bought our train tickets at 8h02 and the cheaper train that takes a bit longer was scheduled to depart at 8h01. We somehow made it on but forgot to swipe our tickets through some machine to validate them. We didn’t know we had to do this at the time. Anyway, it was all working out like clockwork. We had nearly a 2 hour train ride and arrived in Venice at 10h00am. We decided to enquire about our return tickets at the station and everyone gave us different information and different prices. Rich was getting really annoyed and we were sick and tired of the disorganization and inefficiency. Anyway we left the station and 10h40 with our more expensive late night tickets back to Verona and started walking towards San Marco. It was a beautiful, sunny day and walking over the canals was very pretty. I put some blinkers on so that I wouldn’t be enticed by any shops to do any form of shopping and we finally made our way to St Marks Square. We went up the Bell Tower/ Campanile and there were really good views. We then went to the Cathedral and it was beautiful. One must enquire about the rolling Venice card because it offers certain discounts and half price for museums. We visited the Doge’s Palace and it was very interesting. We spent the rest of the day roaming around the canals and trying to get through the ‘maze’. The birds on the square absolutely freaked me out and one landed on my shoulder whilst I was taking a photo and I almost dropped the camera. People buy food and have at least 5 birds sitting all over them; I don’t know how they do it?! At sunset we decided to treat ourselves to a drink – the strawberry- flavored wine. And with that we had Cicchetti which are a selection of sandwiches with special pastes (pumpkin and ricotta/ fish and garlic etc). I chose about five- they are really tiny, but when the bill came Rich freaked out a bit. It was something different after all. We basically walked the whole of Venice, had dinner and got lost trying to find our way back through the maze to the train station. It was a very long day and we go to bed after 2am.
A Day in Venezia!
We woke up at 6am and had to drive to Verona in order to catch the train to Venice. It took about 45 minutes and we found a free parking at the station. We bought our train tickets at 8h02 and the cheaper train that takes a bit longer was scheduled to depart at 8h01. We somehow made it on but forgot to swipe our tickets through some machine to validate them. We didn’t know we had to do this at the time. Anyway, it was all working out like clockwork. We had nearly a 2 hour train ride and arrived in Venice at 10h00am. We decided to enquire about our return tickets at the station and everyone gave us different information and different prices. Rich was getting really annoyed and we were sick and tired of the disorganization and inefficiency. Anyway we left the station and 10h40 with our more expensive late night tickets back to Verona and started walking towards San Marco. It was a beautiful, sunny day and walking over the canals was very pretty. I put some blinkers on so that I wouldn’t be enticed by any shops to do any form of shopping and we finally made our way to St Marks Square. We went up the Bell Tower/ Campanile and there were really good views. We then went to the Cathedral and it was beautiful. One must enquire about the rolling Venice card because it offers certain discounts and half price for museums. We visited the Doge’s Palace and it was very interesting. We spent the rest of the day roaming around the canals and trying to get through the ‘maze’. The birds on the square absolutely freaked me out and one landed on my shoulder whilst I was taking a photo and I almost dropped the camera. People buy food and have at least 5 birds sitting all over them; I don’t know how they do it?! At sunset we decided to treat ourselves to a drink – the strawberry- flavored wine. And with that we had Cicchetti which are a selection of sandwiches with special pastes (pumpkin and ricotta/ fish and garlic etc). I chose about five- they are really tiny, but when the bill came Rich freaked out a bit. It was something different after all. We basically walked the whole of Venice, had dinner and got lost trying to find our way back through the maze to the train station. It was a very long day and we go to bed after 2am.
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