The Road to Milan

As we headed to Milan, we made a stop at Padua, Italy. And as we left I forgot my favorite brown leather jacket on the train :(((( On the bright side, time to get a new jacket for next winter? ;D

On the other hand, Padua was surely a nice little town! :) There were several inexpensive clothing shops. I was tempted to buy some shoes, shades and maybe a new jacket? ;D but I'm a poor college kid... I don't need those materialistic things! Or so I think.

Well, of course we wouldn't have just stopped at Padua to just walk around. Our main purpose was to tour the Scrovegni Chapel, full of Giotto's Early Renaissance paintings. Around the chapel there was a BEAUTIFUL park! I've been in the city for too long.

The cherry blossoms were falling off of the tree! It reminded me of Naruto lol. 


This not a Cherry Blossom. But it's still beautiful. <3
 

When in Venice...

Less than a month left on my European program! And finally, we are on our 2 week excursions starting with Italy!

The city built on top of water. The European ocean air reminded me of the fresh ocean breezes in San Francisco pier and beaches. I miss Cali! But Venice is interesting city. I didn't realize till I had left that there was pretty much no cars at all. The streets are packed with tourists and some locals. And most of these "streets" are just little allies and for this reason there are no cars. Public transportation consisted of boats running from one side of the city to the other. Riding on the public boats all day got me sooo dizzy... I had to keep my balance even on my bed.

A most pleasant view to enter a city with. :) 

 

Venice from this one bell tower. It sure is a red city.  

This is in front of San. Mark's square. In the light blue/pinkish colored square building is Doge's palace  and that one clock tower who's name I can't recall. Didn't have to the chance to go into the palace but I will this Saturday! This place is packed with tourists and street vendors!

You don't find many of these cute houses in a city like this.

Most of the residents in this town live in flats. Its hard to actually find houses because there isn't actually "land" to build houses on. I decided I probably wouldn't like to live in Venice. But its a nice city! It's just super crowded and there isn't much space to do recreational stuff. Even though you're right on top of water I don't think you can actually go fishing or swimming in the dirty greenish blue water.  And there isn't much grass to do recreational stuff on.

 

  

The view from the public boats :) 

Yeah we like them public boats. Except that it takes a life time to get from one place to another. 

We found "Pretty Patties" --Spongebob

Decided it wasn't worth getting one of these babies for 1.30€ so I just got a jelly stuffed croissant instead.

This is part of the main river that runs through the middle of the city.

The Afterglow in Venice.
This is from an Island off the coast of the main Island. Nice place without too many tourists.

Just had to catch that crescent moon. 

 

That was the first day of Venice and then we had to leave for Milan... To be continued... (in Venice this Saturday)

The Tower

We decided to climbed more than 600 steps to get to the second floor (the limit) instead of taking the elevators, which was one of the best yet most painstaking choices. By the time we were down from the tower my legs were shaking nonstop. But it was worth it!

So we decide to go back during the night time and get some midnight in Paris shots. We stayed out pretty late, some local told us the metro runs 24/7, but it turns out it only runs till about 1:15 am, and we missed the last metro back so we had to take a taxi -____-" But, here are a few nice shots I got: