Day 25- Venice (Venezia)

On the train at 5am, to start my five hour journey to Venezia. So I’m finally mastering how the trains work in Italia. There are the slow trains, which are the regionale, local train, the medium and fast train which is the Eurostar. So to take the Eurostar it would have cost ∍120 roundtrip and it cost ∍32 on the local train. So looking at the price difference I took the cheap and slow way. But hey I have nothing, but time!

So Jewel, is my mother’s age, but she doesn’t try to go there, which is great and why we traveled together to Venezia. Since we are the only sistas we have been having a good time relating and kicking back. So after taking three trains, we finally start to pull into the Venezia station. The whole city is surrounded by water, so all we see is water on both sides, it’s amazing.

Coming out of the train station right away you see this huge bridge, lots of people, the boats, gondolas, churches and it’s breath taking. I buy a map and we walk towards our hotel. So I booked this hotel that I randomly found on the Internet last night for ∍65. I actually did pretty good, it wasn’t far from the train station, we drooped off our bags and started walking around. Everywhere we look there are these signs in the windows that say “saldi.” So Venezia has started their summer sale, while Lucca is holding out.

We walked around all day and still didn’t see all of Venezia. Some of the streets are really narrow, there are no cars on the roads, I don’t remember even seeing any bikes. There are people everywhere…lost. I would find where we where on the map, make a couple of turns and had no clue where we are. A lot of the streets where spelled differently on the map or just weren’t there, how did I end up with the bootleg map?

There are so many bridges, Venezia is comprised by all these small pieces of land. I have never seen anything like it. We make it back to the hotel, take a serious nap and change for the evening. There is some jazz club that we are trying to make it to. We stopped at a ristorante for dinner. I have noticed that the Italians serve quite smaller portions than in the U.S. and you hardly see any people that are overweight.

I manage to get us to the right area for the jazz club, but couldn’t exactly find it. So we ask a few people and manage to find it. We get to the door and they tell us it’s over. The laws of Venezia require all live music to be over by 11pm, but yet all the bars play music al night. So we are forced to do as the Italians, go hangout at the bar and have drinks!