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Beautiful Italia Maze: Venice

The long awaited trip has finally arrived. I am going to Italia!!!!!

However, 2 days before the trip, I had a bad stomach upset. Not even sure if it was food poisoning or not because I vomited but I did not have diarrhea. Having that, I had no appetite for almost 3 to 4 days, and I even vomited in the airport. How unlucky am I? On top of that, I had my period cramps. But, it was still a fun trip!

On Friday morning, we were to take a cab to Liverpool Street to catch our bus to Stansted Airport. Our flight was 6 in the morning so we did not get to sleep at all the whole night.

Our first destination was Venice, the land where you will get lost even if you have a map. We were all sleepy and tired and hungry by the time we arrived at Venice's airport. But still, we have to take a bus to the town itself and that took about an hour, another opportunity to nap. =)

Upon arrival, we grabbed a map, asked around how to get to our hotel and most importantly, GOT LOST. According to the website, the hotel is about 20 minutes away from the bus station. So true if you know the way, so untrue for first timers. We ended up walking and walking and walking, finding for signboards of the hotel. We reached the road where it was labeled in the address but found no hotels around. Sister's friend finally asked again for an exact direction and yes, we found out hotel.

How exactly would some one have spotted it???

Anyways, our hotel was a 600 years old guest house, with no air conditioner and 2 big fat dogs. Venice was very very very hot, similar to Malaysia, and we only had a lousy small fan. But it was a whole fun experience staying at a guest house, sharing bathroom with others and also having the opportunity to know other people as well (for my sister).

So, the itinerary I've prepared for this trip started off with a nap. Of course we needed to rest after a night without sleep. And that nap helped so much because by evening, we were back on with full force energy to explore Venice.

According to my dad, Venice is sinking. So he told me that I was lucky to visit it while it's still there because the next time I might have the chance to come back, there might be no more Venice. Hmm.. Seems true to me because all Venice has is water and only water.


And the only way to transport ourselves from one place to another besides our own legs was the boat.

Since my stomach did not permit me to eat much, we went to a supermarket to get some fruits. And that was how big my apple was. And the watermelons!!!!! Huge!

Venice is really an interesting place to explore. Everywhere we walk, we will sure see small little rivers or streams around in between the buildings. The buildings here are really nice and old as well. Everything here is just so different.


Because they only have boats as their transportation, so they automatically have boat taxi stations!!!!!! =)

All we did the first day was just walking around the shops near to our hotel. And the common things we see are just masquerade, glass items, leather bags, and paintings. Our guesthouse was just about 2 minutes walk from the famous Venice bridge, Rialto Bridge and thus, we were always passing by that area, to reach other tourist-sy place.


Since we were already in Venice, how can we not go for the famous Gondola ride? I was very eager to sit because of those shows I watched on TV and I also thought they will sing during the ride. It cost about 33 Euros (about RM200) each per ride. We did not go for it the first day, leaving it for the last night.

In the end, we started posing for pictures.....

We allocated 4 days 3 nights for Venice. So, the next morning, after having our continental breakfast in the guesthouse, we headed off to the "must-go" tourist attraction called St.Marco Square. There, we will see a big huge cathedral and many other interesting stuff (which I am not very aware of... oppss).

Again, we had to take a long walk around because we had a plan on when to use the boat taxi.

Finally, we reached the square, with the cathedral in front of us. Apparently, this place is full of pigeons and it was true! Many tourists were simply playing and feeding the birds while we post for out pictures with the pretty building.

We did not go into the cathedral because there was a very very long queue. So we headed to the water where there was a street full of small little stalls, selling the same thing like masquerade, glass items, paintings, tickets to the other island.....

After about 2 days without food, I was unwell and strength-less already. The 2 understanding companies suggested we take a rest in the room. But we were very far away from the guest house so we just stopped by a garden and took a rest, while posing with my newly bought masquerade.

That rest was really helpful and after that, I was feeling better. Now, it was time for dinner. My sister and her friend (okay, time for me to name him before I keep going on with "my sister's friend"), Seang, had a good dinner. I, on the other hand, chose fruits again.

On the third day, we went to another 2 islands, Murano and Lido. Murano is a place where they make glass items. And Lido was where the beach was.

We decided to use one day to travel out of Venice to her surrounding neighbor islands so that we could save a little bit by buying the 24 hours day pass, which would bring us to the train station the next day as well. Smart?

There wasn't a lot to see in Murano because basically, the island was filled with shops selling the glass items we saw near our guest house. When we headed to Lido for the beach, we regreted a little for not bringing our swim wears.

After a tiring day traveling around, we came back and had dinner in this cute Jazz bar. They had bras hanging everywhere. I still had not gain back my appetite so I only ate a little bit.

That was the end of our Venice trip.

Next destination: Bellagio, Lake Como

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