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Published: April 22nd 2008
I had almost come to terms with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to see Venice during this trip to Italy, because it's a very expensive trip from Siena, but this weekend I went with Jason, Sarah, and Ada and I was able to spend one night and two days in Venice for 100 euros!
Our trip started out about 9:30 Thursday when we caught our first train from Siena to Florence. Once in Florence we had a two hour layover, but we met some really cool people and went out with them before our 1:45 a.m. train to Venice came. While entering the train, Ada and I got separated from Jason and Sarah, and when we arrived in Venice at 5:30 a.m. Jason and Sarah were nowhere to be found. Apparently they slept through the stop and ended up about an hour and a half outside of Venice. This wouldn't have been too big of a problem, except Jason had all of our hostel information. So, Ada and I sat in the train station for about 2 hours until Jason called with directions to our hostel. When we left the train station, it was pouring outside
and Venice looked like it was getting ready to flood like it does 100 days out of the year. Thankfully, when we got to our hostel at about 8 a.m. they let us check in, so we took about a two hour nap after our exhausting train ride.
By the time we awoke, Jason and Sarah had arrived and it had stopped raining, so we ventured out into Venice! The first thing we did was take the "water bus" all the way down the Grand Canal and we got off at St. Mark's Square. We spent the rest of the day wondering down side streets, playing with pigeons (see pictures), and just enjoying the town.
Venice is one of the coolest places I've ever been, to be a fairly large city it's got a real small town feel to it, and I love the fact that there are no cars on the islands, only boats and gondolas, because all the roads are canals.
Of course Saturday morning when we woke up the sun was shining, but we didn't really have time to do too much before our train left at 1:30 p.m.
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Trip Down the Canal
Aunt Teresa
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So Cool
Tif, I am so glad you got to go to Vinence, especially that you go and get a pic at the same place that Papa Jess was almost fifty years ago. It will be a pic that you will cherish for years to come. I know you are really enjoying it, but it will soon be time to come home and share all your adventure with us, who may never get the opportunity. I go to spend some time with your mom and sis, the first of April, I really enjoyed it, sometime I forget how close we all are. Jess as really grown up during the last year, she is becoming a young woman and I have mixed emotion about that, it seems that you and Jess have grown up overnight. I hope that we can spend sometime together in the near future. I guess I am getting old and emotional, but you will understand some day, hopefully not in the near future. I best get back to work. Love ya and be safe!!