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| Venice , Italy |
Years ago, when I was a young girl studying in high school, I learned about The Merchant of Venice. Since then I have the desire to visit Venice one day. That day was today! Some forty years later after secondary school.
Venice did not disappoint us. Personally, I think it’s the most beautiful city in the world! It’s unique, different from any city we have ever visited.
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| Instead of cars, Venetians have boats dock outside their houses |
We had to take the train from Assisi back to Florence, then caught the 3:45 pm train to Venice and arrived there around 5:50pm.
A one way train ticket from Florence to Venice – 48 Euro.
We could have taken a later train and save about 20 Euro each person but that would mean arriving in Venice around midnight.
We wanted to have as much time as possible in Venice so we took the earliest train possible.
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| From our hotel, we could walk everywhere. |
We stayed two nights at Hotel Adua, a 5 minutes walk from the train station.
I must thank my husband for researching and booking a hotel within walking distance to everything again.
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| Buying a 24 hour travel pass would allow visitors to see much more in Venice |
Venice has practically no cars; the main transportation is by boats , mostly city water bus. Tourist could buy a 12 hour travel pass ( 18 Euro ) which allowed us to go everywhere within Venice.
For 2 more Euro, at 20 Euro, a visitor could get a 24 hour travel pass, which is a much better deal if one is staying here for more than a day. We could have used a 24 hour pass and seen more places.
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| Ever wonder what happens when Venetians Open Their Doors to Their houses? |
We absolutely enjoyed walking around Venice.
It is a unique city unlike any other we have ever visited.
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| Bridges, Bridges, Everywhere! |
The entire city has been built with most buildings, houses and old churches fronting water.
There are obviously few drive ways or garages but docks for boats and bridges everywhere to help its inhabitants to get from one place to the other.
Looking at these beautiful houses surrounded by water everywhere and accessible by bridges only, we couldn't help but being amazed at how well these houses have stood the erosion of water throughout the centuries.
The first evening, we strolled around in our neighbourhood getting ourselves familiarized with the city. Night life is always interesting in Italy especially famous cities where tourist frequent.
The night view of Venice is breathtaking. It was just beautiful walking around, coming across small bridges every few steps, watching lights reflecting on the water, passersby ( we were one of them) pausing to admire the beauty of the night scenery by these bridges, being lost and totally enveloped by this surreal setting contented to just let time go by and wishing this magical moment could be frozen and last till eternity.
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| Venice at Night |
Tired from walking, we sat down on a bench under a tree.
There was a gentleman sitting close by and we started chatting. I asked him if
he could speak English and yes he replied. It was nice to meet a fellow
traveller and exchanged information and experience about our travels. Ron, from
Holland, was the one who told us about the visitor’s pass.
It was a lovely night and we talked about travels, different cultures in different cities and discussed the economic crisis in Europe and everything. It was simply an enjoyable conversation. In fact we had such a good time that Ron invited us to visit him in Holland and we exchanged email address. It is positive experience such as this, i.e, meeting people and learning about different cultures and people that make travelling one of our most favourite things to do!
R.T. Venice, Italy
Aug. 2012
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