Singaporeans of Venice.... by kenny

i am back. managed to get my blog back in order. decided to stick with a simple template. back to the story as the two lil pigs march to venice from milan by train. that was when we encountered bad italian service as we bought our youth saver pass at the train station. apparently, the lady at the counter was quite disgruntled as she had difficulties understanding our demands and had problems using the computer. she took her own time to key in details as we anxiously lose precious time with the next train to venice leaving in 5mins. we missed the train but managed to catch another train was leaving not long after. arrive at venezia mestre, found our accommodation and lazed in bed for 1 hr before heading to the city of water, venice!

farm of twigssssss.......

mestre stazione

Glimpse of venice from liberty bridge

venice mestre was off venice city, so we had to take the 10 min train via liberty bridge to reach the island itself. we stood by the grand canal and took pictures of the beautiful city. the weather was superb as we walked along the streets into the heart of the city. it's amazing how the paths would lead to a small canal with gondolas boobing by as the city. it's totally useless to use a map in venice as it is a labyrinth when u explore the streets.. bleah.

xinyi by the grand canal

Gondolasssss

Grand Canal

small canal

Venetian Mask!!! masquarde!!!

slacking on the job!

shops selling pretty venetian mask and costumes went by as we further explored the city. you can really find neat souvenirs in some shops. pastries looked really exciting as we bought some for breakfast... we stopped for gelatos and pizza. the tour of the city carried on the next day. but to our dismal, it rained non-stop the next day. what a way to explore the floating city. we got around by following arrows pointing towards per san marco. stopped by an excellent trattoria for pasta.

melting clock

rialto bridge..

xinyi and me with the bascilica san marco

blurry interior

everyone loves pigeon!! piazza san marco

we finally found the main attraction, which is the bascilica di san marco situated in the only piazza of the island. pigeons littered the piazza as tourist buy feed to feed them. i wish i am a pigeon, u get free food all the time. piazza san marco. touted as "the drawing room of europe" by napolean, it is the only empty space in europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorised traffic and it is lowest point of the island. we stood in the rain snapping pictures of the awesome st mark's basilica and its bell tower. we hid in the basilica for a fairly long time to hide from the cold and rain before deciding that we had enough of the romantic city. headed home to have pizza takeaway for dinner. i dried my jeans, socks and shoes using the light bulbs and lamps in the room and eventually burnt some parts of them. o.O. slept early to catch the morning train to firenz

pretty house by the canal

love is in the air!!!

proscuitto (ham) e funghi (mushroom)!!! my favourite!!!

ciao venice!!!

totally mesmerised by the layout of the city, the canals, pretty gondolas that were too expensive, uniqueness of the city, bridges, venetian masks..... that's all for venice. catch me for the next part the journey as the two lil pigs head south to florence. ciao!



venice