Anyway, back to Venice… After our 4 hour train ride, we arrived in Venezia at 3 in the afternoon. I was sooo excited to be in another new country, and in Venice of all places! Our group stuck together the entire time, and I absolutely LOVED Al. He’s only 28 years old, so he was super fun to be around and fit in great with all of us students. He told everyone we had to take at least 2 “freaky” pictures. So, a lot of the trip was spent trying to find some semi-crazy/weird stuff for everyone to do.
To be honest, there is really not a lot to do in Venice. If we were to go on a gondola ride, it’d cost 50 Euros per person—so 150 US dollars for two people—I decided against that. Instead, we walked through the city, went into some gorgeous church, went out for some Italian pizza, and drank some white wine in the middle of the city.
The church that we went through was built with every type of marble possible. You probably couldn’t even put a price tag on this building. It was beautiful! I wasn’t allowed to take any pictures from the inside, but gosh it was amazing!
Going out for pizza was INCREDIBLY expensive. We went to the cheapest place we could find. My pizza was 8.50 Euro, mine sprite(which was just one tiny can) was 4 euro, service charge was 1.50 euro, and my chair—yeah you have to pay to sit—was 2 euro. So, in total my pizza and sprite was 16 euro, or 24 dollars! It was good, but still…definitely not worth what I paid. Al told us to put olive oil on our plate so that our crust would have some added flavor, and oh my gosh, it was sooo good! You all should definitely try that at home!
After we ate pizza we went to the Rialto (which is funny, because at UNI that’s like our dining center). But here, the Rialto is like a huge open area surrounding by marble buildings and extremely tiny bars. Natalie and I went into a bar and an Italian guy (that had a lazy eye) ended up having some connection to Des Moines and bought us a glass of white wine. It was incredibly nice of him! ...What was really weird though, was that since here the drink age for beer and wine is only 16, we saw such young Italian kids going to the bar and ordering their drinks.
Anyways, afterwards sitting in the Rialto for a couple hours, we walked back to the train station—this was around 11. Marcos (the Nicaraguan, and like my favorite person here) and I went for a walk to some Pita place and I got a little spinach rollup thing.
At 12:15 we got on the train. We got off about 15 minutes later to catch another train, but it was delayed so we ended up waiting from 12:30 to 2:15 in the FREEZING cold weather to wait for our train. We didn’t end up getting back to Klagenfurt until about 6 am. Then we took a taxi back home, showered, and slept until 3:00 pm.
All in all, it was a GREAT trip! Venice was gorgeous, and I can’t wait to go see even more places!
The entire group that went.
Hanging out on some bridge.
Under some bridge.
And at sunset!
Night time over the water!
And ill put more pics on another post
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