Day 65 & 66 - Venice!

Day 65 -

So today was a REALLY silly day, after the Toga party last night, I missed the shuttle bus, and I didn't get to go into Venice :S but I had been told its kind of a one day thing, so I wasn't too worried.

I bascailly did some washing, sat around and chatted to Paul and hung around the pool for a little while. I had dinner that night with two girls I met on busabout, Haylee and Stephanie.

Pretty dull day actually, not much to say here at all.

Day 66 -

So today I woke up and DID make it to the shuttle bus. I got on with Haylee aqnd Stephanie and we went right into Venice.

Thew city is beautiful, but you can't pretend to ever know where you are. You have to just get lost... I'll talk about that a bit more later on.

One of the first things we did there was get gelato lol. Then pizza. The pizza is actually really good!

I managed to do all of my souviner shopping within the first 20 minutes of being there, which was useful.

Then we got a gondola ride! It was actually a bit cheaper than everyone was telling me to expect. He took us around all the canals, and told us a bit about the history. He didn't sing though, even after we begged him. I was a bit disappoint lol.

After this we took a water bus to Murano island, where all the famous glass is manufactured. We watched a small demonstration where they made a glass turtle, it was pretty cool, but I was hoping to see glass blowing, but we didn't. Nevermind though.

We wandered around for a little while, but I got a REALLY bad headache, probably;ly because it was the first hot heat I've experienced in quite a while. So I had to sit down and wait for a pharmacist to open (damn siesta) So I had to chill olut for a while, and the two girls wandered around while I pretty much slept on a park bench.

Anyway, I wanted to see a bit more of Venice, so we arranged to meet on the bridge at 6pm, and I left Murano a bit earlier.

It ended up taking me nearly an hour and a half to get back, so I knew I was going to miss the 6pm meeting spot, but I knew the girls most definitely would. So i tried to mission back to the shuttle bus.

I got a fair way, and I stopped and had dinner, gnocci with ragu, was pretty good, but I expected the ragu to be meat and it was just mince? But still really tasty. After dinner, then I got lost.... Its a bit painful to talk about this, because you have to book the shuttle bus, and the whole time I was freaking out that I was going to miss it and have to pay a stupid amount of money to get back to the camping grounds... I was asking people for the train station (which from the shuttle bus I had to take a few stops to get to the city center) and they were all leading me different ways, but to the train station, which when I got there I discovered it was the wrong place ( all along I should have been asking for the 'people mover') So i freaked out a little when my phone went flat, and found a pay phone and called my hostel. They eventually told me I was meant to be looking for the people mover, and told me where to go.

I finally found it, and was soooo relieved, they also told me (because I already missed my booked one) that they had an extra spot on the next shuttle bus.

Sop I made my way there and waited for a little while. Haylee and Staphanie eventually found me at the shuttle bus, I was messaging Stephanie the whole way telling her how lost I was but she had no credit to reply. Apparently they were pretty worried lol. :S Sorry girls.

Anyway, apart from the end there, it was a pretty cool day. Had quite a bit of fun, and Venice is beautiful.

Things that made me happy today; The beauty and uniqueness of Venice.

Things that made me sad today; Well that;s obvious, getting so super lost and stressed.