Blogs from Venice, Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 135

Day 6 Arrival: Santa Lucia Station - Venice, Italy (early morning by overnight train from Munich) Accomodation: Venexia Apartment first impression = home away from home, great view of canals, spacious, fully equipt kitchen room type = spacious and private shower = shared in hallway tip = call owner's ahead and avoid arriving early Gone.. Go Trippin' We arrived extremely early, checked our luggage into a locker at the train station and dragged ourselves out to the city of canals. We had called as soon as we arrived and was told we could not check into until later so decided to wander the city which appeared to still be asleep. Tired and drained, we really just wanted to check in and rest. Oh well, press on. We found a small cafe and decided to have some ... read more

Hmm, so about last night... I might have a little too much fun. I woke up this morning around 4:00 am feeling like crap. I forgot to mention that last night, we decorated the room with crepe paper for Charlotte birthday. I really had to use the restroom, but I couldn't get out of bed, because the crepe paper would have been torn. By 4:30, I just went for it. We woke up around 6:00 am, and hopefully Char liked the decorations. It was kinda hard to tell. We started getting ready for breakfast at 7:00. Breakfast lasted a little longer than usual, because Brek probably had a later night than the rest of the lot. Anyways, today we ar going to drive over to Italy! Our first stop of the day was at the rest ... read more

Hello to one and all, I am SO HUNGRY! Thank god we have food in our backpacks as soon as we get out of here. We have just booked at this place's sister campsite in Rome, we like the prospect of having a room alone with a pool not far away for the same price as a place right in Rome with 12 other people and no pool! We spent yesterday by the pool, so nice. I am so tanned, or getting there... and Dan is so burned! But we had a great time dipping in and out of the pool and reading and chatting with people around. Sun is hot, water is cool, beautiful combination! Today we went island hopping to Murano and Burano in the lagoon off of Venice. We took the public transport, ... read more

I can't write much now as we are about to run out for dinner but we have been travelling pretty much non-stop for 2 days. We left Dubronik for Orebic the day before yesterday (sat I guess??) It was pouring rain the entire day. I only had enough time in Orebic to eat spaghetti and take a few pictures... oh and play some video poker in a bar (I know but it was freezing outside) before we got on the boat to Korcula. We got to Korcula late in the evening. Ryan ran around asking for ferry info and Alistair looked for accomodations while I sat down and kept an on the packs (tough job). We lucked out with a great room by the bus station which was especially important as we had to take the ... read more

Hello to one and all, We are officially in Italy! Actually we got into the country on the 1st, first we were in the Cinque Terre national park. Beautiful. It is comprised of 5 little towns connected by a hiking trail, it is absolutely amazing. Picture little towns of multicoloured houses all attached with dark green shutters slapped onto a cliffside with beautiful dark blue ocean... mmmm... and blue blue sky. Wow it was amazing! We did the full 9km hike through all of the villages on our first full day there. We were hurting but very proud of ourselves afterward! The second and final day there we caught a ferry that runs through to all the towns, went to the last town Manorolo (sp), rented some beach chairs and sunbathed. So relaxing, and in the ... read more