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Published: September 25th 2006
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Oh yeah
The mean streets of Venice Venice. Wow.
We're staying in a campsite about 20 minutes out of Venice, it's a pretty sweet place. We are staying in a mobile home type room, it's a small room with 3 beds and has it's own bathroom which is actually really nice. The shower is huge and really powerful. The main problem is the bugs! I must have about 30 mossie bites and they're driving me crazy. There's a great pool area too which has been excellent for just lying around on the deskchairs reading, working on the tan and maybe going for a lazy dip in the pool. Not to mention the talent. 😉
We've been drinking it up solidly every night since we got here, it's party party party. There's a nice mix of girls to guys and mostly very friendly people. Mostly Aussies actually! We've been running the same program everyday actually. We go to the little market and buy 2 or 3 bottles (660ml) of beer and something to eat, which pretty much means tuna and rolls, yuk, I'm so sick of eating shit. Eat and drink untill the pub opens at 9 and there is a happy hour till 10, so we get boozed.
Canals
I have stupid amounts of canal photos, it's just so hard not to take photos here. Dance, talk to random people, pull guitars out and sing and basically have a great drunken time. Pub closes at 2am or so, but I've always stayed out, talking to people and singing in big groups. It really is very very fun, I will be sad to leave tomorrow.
We've gone into the city a couple of times now, once on the first day and then Sophie came here to stay and so we went in yesterday with her. Yesterday was actually the best as we followed the tourist route along the bank of the main canal and out to San Marco Sq, rather than the first time where being real men we just stuffed getting a map and headed in ourselves, we still saw alot but spent alot of time trying to get unlost! I still can't get over how amazing it is to go to these places, when we got off our train from Lake Garda and walked out of the station to see a canal with boats and italian shops and streets, wow, blows my mind. I think I'm finally starting to realise that I'm here. Has only taken 9 weeks.
The funniest thing ever happened yesterday.
The main drag
Boy racers here drive speed boats. Basically there are alot of street sellers in all the Italian cities, but Venice is particulary rife. Mostly it's fake prada handbags etc, but we saw this guy selling the most amazing things yesterday. Little card board cartoon characters with funny bouncy legs that somehow dance to music, he showed us how when he turns the beat down the things dance slower. Very cool stuff. Looked great. We decided to buy a couple so skillfully talked the guy into letting us get three for 7.50 Euro. Bargain. Sophie decided to test hers straight away, the guy very helpfully took it from here to open it and show us how they work. "Don't touch the sensor here" he said and then waved it in front of his music player and set it down. Off it went! Dance dance dance. How cool. When we got home we put Hayden's music on and cracked open one of our new magic toys to play with it. What the fuck? It didn't work. In fact, on closer inspection it appeared to be just a card cutout with wool legs. The "sensor" really looked just like a folded piece of card with a staple in it,
Day 1 in Venice
Getting lost and then stumbling on this. It's what it's all about! and what's with the staple? Not to worry, we opened the instructions that came with, which were strangly packed so you couldn't read them through the pack. Hang on, the instructions say you make these guys dance by hanging them on a thread!!!!! Duped. Good and proper. :P Only then did we click. The guy in the street hangs a couple of these things by an invisible thread and then makes out like they are dancing by themselves. He was so "helpful" because if he hadn't grabbed the thing to "show us how it worked" we would have realised it was just a piece of card with wool attached! God, I felt like such a tourist. We couldn't stop laughing about it last night. Thinking back to us getting so excited about these cool things, Matt saying "Wow, I'm going to go back and buy 10 and send them home for Christmas presents!" Haha. I never realised I was that guilable.
We are going our separate ways tomorrow, Matt and Hayden are heading to St Tropez in France to see if they can get a ride there for some regatta. I'm going to head to Vienna, Austria and kill some
Day 1 in Venice2
The building was some old church built in thanks after the plague finished. time before trying to figure out how I will get to Minsk. After that, who knows. I met a couple of really cool girls from Bristol in England and have been offered a spare room to sleep in if I want, so I may well do that after Belarus and try to find a job in the UK somewhere.
The travelling I'm still really enjoying. I know now what people mean though when they talk of the ups and downs. Sometimes I'm having such a great time that I never want to leave, especially in Italy, which is such an amazing place. Other times I feel like shit and I'm sick of living out of a backpack, sick of struggling to eat well and clean my clothes, it's a real rollercoster but I'm having the ride of my life.
Aaron.
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Haley
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hehe, love the street vendor story!! Awesome photos...are you also in a boat or just walking along a path somewhere? Have fun and take care! xxx