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.
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.
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)
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