Blogs from Venice, Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 133

My third camp of the summer, Meolo close to the Adriatic sea, was hot and Humid but quick, easy, and mellow!... read more

whew...italy has been hot. but you know what, even with the moaning about the heat, i'll miss it. goodbye gelato, goodbye italian food, goodbye motion sickness!!! we went to the island of murano this morning, and watched people blow glass. wow. i watched this man take a lump of molten glass and create a horse in less than a minute, by pulling and twisting, and bending the glass. i can't even describe it, it happened so fast. some of the stuff there was incredible, and of course, expensive. i think we're both getting a little run down, mom fell asleep on the boat today while we were going back to venice. i am really looking forward to my bed....but we're still having fun though. just tiring is all. so....i'll post more pics as soon as we ... read more

Here we are in Venice. No matter what you've read about this city, how beautiful it is, how enchanting, how unique...nothing written does it justice. It's like a fairy land, unlike anyplace I've ever been. Definately the place to be for romantics. Any city where most of the transportation and commerce is done by boat is ok with me. We had a bit of a mix-up when we got here yesterday. There's two railroad stations, the guidebook we had said we had to go to Sant Lucia, unfortuantely we didn't have explicit directions for the hotel, and even though the address given was Venice, it wasn't really IN Venice, not the part in the water anyway..to make a long story short we ending up in Venice, at 10 o'clock at night not knowing where to go ... read more

0830　bus 82　晴 　　醒來時，黏乎乎的，我還以為昨晚會睡不著。床褥下的彈簧吱吱作響，想轉身也很傷神。 　　分派早餐的女人又看不懂英文，又要以為人人懂得看意大利文的指示（也許她以為有圖有字我們便知道先要點飲品吧），最怕這類人，只會不斷將距離拉遠，寫英文指示不可以嗎，反正錯文法是意料之內的事。 事關在樓梯張貼了一張告示，寫著"There was some theft…"，那個'was'不知被哪個好心的人刪去，改成了'were'。 0909　Lido　熱 　　被它的譯名「麗都」所誤導，下船後才發現這裡有巴士有店舖，比「本部」更要先進。單車每小時€3，但看來這裡沒有甚麼好看的，而且Venezia的氛圍實在令我拒絕消費。 1128　Palazzo Ducale 　　聖馬可廣場一帶早應先到，我對Venezia的印象會好一點。 　　雖然Palazzo Ducale值得一看，但€12入場費，售票職員無意但近似不屑的嘴臉，我真的覺得意大利人比法國人更自大，但我實在不明白有甚麼東西值得如此傲慢。法國人雖然「隨心」了一點，但仍很可愛。 　　 　　今天特備節目是──午睡（然後看那不知戲碼是甚麼的16強賽事），還有最後一集＜尋找麥記的故事＞。 1309　bus 82　炎熱 　　理論上今天的行程已經完結。 1803　Zitelle（旅舍對出的水上巴士站）　晴 　　醒來同樣是「熱乎乎」的，似乎我已經享受了整天最涼快的午睡時間。 　　見canteen有Heineken，買了一罐，才知1700的戲碼是英格蘭對厄瓜多爾。雖然單看上半場英格蘭略有失準，但說不定到最後又是1:0。 　　同桌的男人看來比較像球證，我教他用自動售賣機買水，他為我打聽到2100將會是荷蘭對葡萄牙，那當然趁完上半場去吃晚餐了。 McDonald’s 　　滿心歡喜走進麥當勞，他們用6.60的Menu歡迎我…… 　　結果倒不如€7.0來一記maxi。 　　白鴿可以在餐廳內飛，吃完後仍有坐船的感覺。 1947　h... read more

So we arrived to Venice and looked forward to getting straight to our hostel... that proved to be easier said than done. First off, our directions were from a train station we had already passed, so we had to jump back on the train and go back 10 minutes the way we had already come. Then we had to find bus number 11 to Campground Fusina. Apparently there are two of them and one doesnt go to Fusina. Of course we got on the wrong one and were enjoying the air conditioning and as soon as someone heard me say "Fusina" outloud, we had 3 people telling us we were on the wrong bus, but of course we had no idea what they were saying and we were like "Fusina, yeah!" And they were like "Fusina, ... read more