Venice the Menace!
Sunday, November 19th, 2006From Ljubljana it is about a 4 hour train ride to Venice. Once again I arrived and wandered around with my map looking for my hotel. I paid about 23 Euros for a bed that was crammed into a room with 3 others. Luckily I only had one night. Venice is definitely a beautiful city but extremely touristy. The city itself is made up of 100 or more islands with canals and waterways that weave their way in between them. It is full of beautiful buildings and churches. I spent most of my time just getting lost in the maze of streets. The peak of my excitement in Venice was going to a newspaper stand and picking up a USA today to see if there was anything relevant happening back home only to have it snatched out of my hand and then get yelled at by the guy working the stand. He yelled at me in Italian so I guess that was good. I flung my hand out from underneath my chin at him as I stared at him and I walked away.
Venice is probably one of the most expensive cities I have been too so far on this trip. 23 Euros is almost $30. You could get a massive slice of pizza for about 2 Euros, so take a guess as to what I ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Only having 1 night I probably didn’t get to see all there is to see in Venice. I probably wouldn’t even have gone to Venice had it not been for the cheap flight to Barcelona. I wish I had more to say about Venice but…it is what it is.
Gagnonius