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Venice-Part II
Early Friday morning we set out for Venice because Charles really wanted to see the famous fish market before all of the good seafood was gone. We found the fish market with relative ease (surpised?) Some of the coolest, strangest and freshest fish were on display pulled straight out of the Adriatic Sea. This is probably one of the best fish markets in the world and it was amazing and enlightening to discover there are more than three types of fish in the sea and people actually eat them! After the fish market we floated down the Grand Canal in the "waterbus" and enjoyed the blue skies and sun on our backs. Since Carnevale was in full swing there were many people dressed in many elaborate and amazing costumes. We took a few pictures and Allie got to pose next to George Washington!
After wandering around, we found our way to a place for lunch. Unfortunately, it was was expensive (everything in Venice is expensive), quite mediocre and left us in desperate need of some mouthwash! We settled on some overpriced gum though. Basically, we spent the day wandering aimlessly through the labrynth that is Venice. The city is built on many islands so you can be walking down a "street" and all of a sudden you come to a dead end. At this point you have two choices: the first is two find a pole and vault across the divide. The second is to back track and find a bridge to cross over. We always chose the latter.
Around 8 o'clock we decided to head back to our hotel in Mestre, which is about 30 minutes via bus. We waited forever for the bus that would drop us off in front of our hotel but that one never came. So we caught another bus that would take us to the train station in Mestre where we could take another bus back to the hotel. While we waited for over 30 minutes for that elusive bus that would drop us off at our hotel we noticed a college aged guy wearing a "Gonzaga in Florence" t-shirt. Being more friendly than usual, I asked him where he was from. Turns out he was a Gonzaga student and he was from Snohomish, so of course we became fast friends. Apparently Gonzaga has a school in Florence and also one in Paris. So now we at least had some friends to chat with while we waited for the bus (they were waiting for the same bus). Finally another 30 minutes later the bus arrived. Happily, we all got on.
Allie and I quickly noticed that this bus was taking a different route than it had the night before. We figured everything would be ok, afterall, this was the same number bus, right? Somewhere down the road, the driver finished his route and told everyone to get off the bus! Apparently, there are three Number 11 buses in Mestre! He was a tleast kind enough to point us in the right direction to wait for another number 11 bus that would finally deliver us to our hotel's doorstep. After another 30 minutes, the correct Number 11 bus picked us up and took us out of the hooker filled area we were in.
Total time to get home was about two and a half hours! We did have a good time and we made some new friends who promised to show us around Florence provided we can make it out of Rome for a weekend.
Early Friday morning we set out for Venice because Charles really wanted to see the famous fish market before all of the good seafood was gone. We found the fish market with relative ease (surpised?) Some of the coolest, strangest and freshest fish were on display pulled straight out of the Adriatic Sea. This is probably one of the best fish markets in the world and it was amazing and enlightening to discover there are more than three types of fish in the sea and people actually eat them! After the fish market we floated down the Grand Canal in the "waterbus" and enjoyed the blue skies and sun on our backs. Since Carnevale was in full swing there were many people dressed in many elaborate and amazing costumes. We took a few pictures and Allie got to pose next to George Washington!
After wandering around, we found our way to a place for lunch. Unfortunately, it was was expensive (everything in Venice is expensive), quite mediocre and left us in desperate need of some mouthwash! We settled on some overpriced gum though. Basically, we spent the day wandering aimlessly through the labrynth that is Venice. The city is built on many islands so you can be walking down a "street" and all of a sudden you come to a dead end. At this point you have two choices: the first is two find a pole and vault across the divide. The second is to back track and find a bridge to cross over. We always chose the latter.
Around 8 o'clock we decided to head back to our hotel in Mestre, which is about 30 minutes via bus. We waited forever for the bus that would drop us off in front of our hotel but that one never came. So we caught another bus that would take us to the train station in Mestre where we could take another bus back to the hotel. While we waited for over 30 minutes for that elusive bus that would drop us off at our hotel we noticed a college aged guy wearing a "Gonzaga in Florence" t-shirt. Being more friendly than usual, I asked him where he was from. Turns out he was a Gonzaga student and he was from Snohomish, so of course we became fast friends. Apparently Gonzaga has a school in Florence and also one in Paris. So now we at least had some friends to chat with while we waited for the bus (they were waiting for the same bus). Finally another 30 minutes later the bus arrived. Happily, we all got on.
Allie and I quickly noticed that this bus was taking a different route than it had the night before. We figured everything would be ok, afterall, this was the same number bus, right? Somewhere down the road, the driver finished his route and told everyone to get off the bus! Apparently, there are three Number 11 buses in Mestre! He was a tleast kind enough to point us in the right direction to wait for another number 11 bus that would finally deliver us to our hotel's doorstep. After another 30 minutes, the correct Number 11 bus picked us up and took us out of the hooker filled area we were in.
Total time to get home was about two and a half hours! We did have a good time and we made some new friends who promised to show us around Florence provided we can make it out of Rome for a weekend.
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