Venice

I survived Italy! And by survived I mean loved every second of it. It was a great way to turn 26, celebrate the boyfriends 26^th, and experience another new country!

I swear that I’m going to try to update you all (the like 2 of you) on the trip details … but maybe a day at a time or city by city … So here goes!

Venice

Worked Friday from 7:30 – 12:30 then hopped a flight to Paris for a layover. Upside I upgrade to comfort ecomony and had like 15 empty seats surrounding me. Downside, I found out that the boyfriends flight was delayed and that he’d be meeting me in Venice 6 hrs later unless I wanted to pay 250 bucks to change flights. It was a close call, but I decided to save the money and hang out in the really small and awful Venice airport solo waiting.  So I sat at Venice airport from 8:50-:240 pretending that I sleep while I travel … at this point I hadn’t slept in over 30 hrs. 

When Josh got to Venice we caught a waterbus into the city center. Or so we thought since we got off on the wrong island (Lido). Wandered around on the wrong island for like 10 minutes then re-caught the waterbus to find our bed and breakfast, the C’Due Leoni. The B&B was nice. It was a little off the beaten path in a part of the Cannaregio section of Venice, but it was quiet and not overpriced. The room itself was nice. It was 2 stories. The bottom floor with the entry, bathroom, and small sitting area for breakfast and then the upstairs was just a desk, nightstands & a bed – or two smaller than twin beds pushed together to make a queen.

Put down our stuff and went to dinner. Josh ordered something that looked like it came from the oilfield (Codfish & Tar?) and I ordered pasta.  We split a bottle of wine – the first of many on this trip – and wandered around the streets of the ‘Jewish Ghetto’ according to the map in our pocket that we never could have survived without. ((At least not with any real sanity left)). Went back to our hotel and finally got some sleep.

In the morning we called downstairs and they sent breakfast up to our room. It was pretty delicious, but then again, I could eat nutella and croissants every morning for breakfast!

Got cleaned up then headed out to check out some of Venice. Took some great shots on top of the Rialto Bridge, the first bridge to ever connect to the two sides of Venice, then it started raining pretty good so we headed out to pack up and go pick up our rental car (which is a Panda … literally).

Next up …. Tuscany & Florence!