12/21 cloudy to heavily rain
Venice, Murano & Burano island
Everyone said that Venice is a place of getting lost, almost every tourist even local could lost in an anonymous street, canal or bridge. The address system made the situation even worse, they separate district with different number and divided classification system with a long number, so even if you got the right address, doesn’t means that you’ll find the right way. A street maybe called “calle”, “ruga” or “salizzada”.
Still, we arrived the city in the midnight. But thanks to Flora’s kindly help, we marched through enormous canals, bridges and paths between buildings, then found our hotel is located at the middle of a 1-meter-wide street. Although it’s like an elbow training to carry our lugguges up and down the roads, fled in the streets was fun.
There were many boatmen yelling “Gondola” to tourists, they dressed like sailors in black and white stiped shirts and big rounded hat. We would like to give it a try, taking gondola in Venice is just like riding a motorbike in Rome and bicycling in Amsterdam is a must do. The boatmen provide us a special discount price, 60E for half hour, which means 20E per person. That’s way too expensive.
As a pedestrain, it is carefree to walk on the streets of Venice, there are no cars or traffics you should be worried, so that walk or taking boats become 2 major ways to visit any spots. There are only 3 bridge cross the major canal, so that sometimes you’ve seen your destination but gotta find a bridge to go across the canal, which may cost you a de-tour or maybe 40 minutes more, including getting lose.
On the first morning in Venice, we went to the Fisherman market for seafoods! Since Venice is next to the sea side, the quality of seafoods are guaranteed. We bought half kilo of big shrimps, a middle sized calamary, 4 scallops, half kilo shell fish and some pieces of fish meat for 30E.
In the afternoon, we tried not to do anything, not to set any destinations but walking in the small alleys. To be honest, get lost was our goal. Streets after streets, sometimes go through a small path and the other plaza comes to you. It’s wonderful to get lost in Venice.
In the evening, we went back to Flora’s and cooked the seafoods together. That was the most amazing dinner we ever had during the tour, and one of the cheapest one. Flora made us her world class Tiramisu, taste like heaven. We chitchatted about everything on the diner table, and girls always like to discuss about their future :/
That night was wonderful, even if the weather was cold outside with rain.
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