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Published: March 16th 2007
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Venice
venice 18 sun - Florence train to Venice
19 mon - Venice
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The train was a little late so we arrived at Mestre(near Venice) at 14.15, we were supposed to meet our couch surfing guy at 14.10, so we txt him to say sorry but we will be a little late and got a snarky we should have made an effort! So we ran off the bus and headed to the hotel just in front of the station to meet him, we txt to tell him we were there and he was stuck in traffic haha. When he arrived we said hello and were introduced to Hugo another couch surfer (who I was destined to wrestle later in the trip), so we all pilled into his luggage and all and drove to his place. After unloading and putting all our stuff in the kitchen we headed out to Venice via a really handy bus to meet up with some of Massimo’s couch surfer friends and the other people who were being hosted at the time. We had a good time walking around Venice looking for everybody and getting shown all the
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First main bridge sights along the way. As well as a bit of history of each from some of the guys which was great, Jade met a girl names Anna who instantly hit it off and were almost inseparable as only girls can be for the rest of the evening, and I was talking to Hugo and a few of the others who were with us. We ended up at a little local bar and tried out a nice range of the local drinks and food which were great! One of my favourites was a spritzer is a mix of wine and lemonade I think but it has a bit of a biter taste reminded me of gin? But was really nice after you got over the first sip😊 After that we headed to St. Marco square, which is the a big open square in the middle of Venice’s encroaching jovial streets (see I do know some vocab;-) By then night had fallen and being carnival there were heaps of people everywhere and a huge concert/play thing was happening. A few of us headed over to check it out, and In the process managed to loose Massimo and a few of the others.
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view from the top of the bridge A little while later we found them and headed to another piazza(square) and found a dancing on the street type thing, which was great so we spent the remainder of the evening boogieing down, to the best of Italian hits and classic sing along songs haha. Heading home in the bus back to Mestre I almost fell asleep standing up in the crowded bus, it has been a busy and eventful day. So after the walk home I set up the mattress on Massimo’s floor and promptly fell fast asleep.
The next morning as soon as jade jumped in the shower Massimo quickly grabbed Hugo and I and said it was now time to wrestle. So with pretty much no wrestling experience and still bleary eyed and both of us only dressing only in boxers, we started wrestling or at least trying to… because to the limited room we had to forgo trying to get the better of each other from the normal kneeling stance and go straight to the hugging section haha, unfortunately neither of us were really feeling into the whole situation and to make things a little worse Massimo started taking pictures of us… and then
ran out of memory. He suggested we have coffee and then try again, but both of us informed him we‘d rather finish now! So he deleted a few pics and we had one or two last bouts, then headed into the kitchen for some great Italian coffee and little toast things for breakfast. So after that interesting morning Massimo dropped us of at the bus station and we headed of to Venice. Hugo cam with us and after a bit of exploring we settled in a great little square and had out usual lunch😊 after which Hugo and I I had a bit of a play fight which was great, we even got a few little kids lining the platform we were on haha. So feeling much better after a bit of fighting I understood we headed off into the streets and bridges of Venice. We had planned to meet up with some Ausie girls we’d met in Rome but never ended up finding them. But we did buy some great masks, and with some creative English and help form Hugo I managed to buy some plastic cups and we all had whisky and coke for the rest of the
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so so so Cute evening. That evening we met up with Anna and got our selves some great Chinese food(yes I know even in Venice) and headed to Anna’s place, turns out the girls are ferocious carnivores and us guys were vegetarians go figure lol
We were supposed to meet Massimo at 10pm back at the bus station but we got Anna to call him and explain/invite him over… it was s tense conversation but I think he was alright with it in the end he didn’t appreciate us not spending time with him though. We ended up heading back to his flat at around 2am and once again collapsed into a deep sleep. The next morning after a great Italian coffee, we said good bye to Massimo and headed into Venice to Anna’s place and she had agreed to host Jade for the last night and I was heading home that evening=( So after being a pack mule and carrying way to much through Venice’s lanes we arrived at her place and proceeded to repack everything for the rest of our trips home.
After a successful repacking and a short walk Anna got back form work and made us the most delicious pasta
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Carnival Costumes and tomato pasta! I learned some great cooking tips and had a great meal. That evening we met up with Hugo and bought some wine(in our old water bottle!!) for next to nothing, well actually othing because anna has a magical smile and he filled it up for her for nothing! The guys dropped me off at the bust station, there were hugs all around and plans to meet up later in my travels around Europe in my van. It was a sad good by as I had, had a great trip and wasn’t quite ready to go back to the daily grind that is work at the council back in London. So after a short 2hr flight and 2hours on a bus I made it back to my own bed in London by 2am. Ready for work at 6 on the Monday morning!
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Spirtzer
Is half a glass champange, two squirts of ginerno nd a littl fizzy water. =)