Venezia 2/19-2/21

Two weekends ago was my trip to Venice.

We took a high speed train on the way there,

which only took about 3 hours.

Our hostel was on the mainland,

only a 10 minute/1 euro train ride away from Venice proper.

The next day, we headed into Venice and it rained. all. day.

What else is new.

We broke out the umbrellas and

bought 36 hour passes for the vaporetto service. (water bus)

Very weird/strange place. No cars. No roads. Lots of water.

I was stunned at how quickly I became used to

taking boats everywhere instead of a subway or bus,

and every once in a while I had to remind myself

where we were and really appreciate it all.

We went to Murano, and island where all the glass blowing is done -

apparently they were moved there

because their kilns would start fires on the main islands,

there we watched some glass sculpting.

We wandered around more,

and Colin played tour guide while

we took the vaporetto down the grand canal,

reading from his travel book about

what all the different buildings were that we passed.

We headed back and hung out at the hostel,

after searching for a non-existent night life.

The next day we just attempted to get lost in Venice all day,

and somehow wound up seeing the same places several times....

We were some sort of twilight zone

where every turn put us back in the same piazza.

Our train ride back was pretty awful,

we saved money by taking an overnight train,

11:30 pm-7:30amish and didn't buy sleeper cars.

Thankfully I can sleep anywhere.

COOL HATS!

This post doesn't really do Venice the justice it deserves,

because Venice was my coolest trip UNTIL Munich.