After spending almost half of the day at different airports, we finally reached Venice, the city of water. It's raining when we reached there =.= The rain stopped after we checked in at our hotel and it was still a few hours before dinner time, so we left our comfy hotel rooms and out to the cold and wet grounds, exploring the beautiful city.
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| Street view from outside our hotel |
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| masquerade masks |
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| Murano glass....specially in Venice |
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| selling vegetables....they look really fresh!!! |
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water bus
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| Water taxi |
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| one of the bigger bridges |
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| Venice has a lot of bridges connecting each street!!! |
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| Typical Venice scenery =D |
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| me and Wei Ven |
Found a place for dinner at a cafe....other than the spaghetti, we didn't really enjoy the dinner.... (maybe coz we had good French food the day earlier and this was comparatively not as nice....haha)
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| soft bread |
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| biscuit-like sticks |
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| spaghetti with cuttlefish in black sauce - BEST dish of all, I still miss this to this day |
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| beef lasagne |
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| spaghetti con vongole (i.e. with clams) - nice and fresh, yummy! |
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| fried fish of the day |
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| chicken chop with salad - certainly not the best ever and we didn't really like it |
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| I didn't like mine either....this is pork chop with chips, quite dry.... |
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| Venice at night |
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| Walked into a gallery/museum randomly to take pics....free entry |
When nightfall came there was a sudden heavy downpour....we quickly got back to the hotel as fast as we could as it was quite cold and the streets were dimly lit. And the ground was very wet....we spent the night just relaxing ourselves in our rooms and surfing the internet with the free wi-fi at the hotel =D
The next morning greeted us with good-quite-sunny-warm weather. What a joy....good timing to have our gondola ride!
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| by the balcony of our hotel... |
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| We had free breakfast at the restaurant next to our hotel |
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| =D |
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| Gondola ride!! |
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| apparently the movie 'The Tourist' was filmed here |
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| group picture in the gondola =D |
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| masquerade... |
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| we're LOST....everywhere looked very similar to us!! |
Using the map the hotel gave us, we managed to find our way through the many passages and bridges and alleys.....to reach Piazza San Marco. We spent a lot of time taking pictures and by the time we reached the square we were very hungry. Time for lunch!
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| Decided to have pizzas so we ordered 4 different pizzas to share |
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| Piazza San Marco (St Mark's Square) |
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| There were a lot of pigeons at the square |
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| one of the buildings in Piazza San Marco |
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| nice architecture |
Soon it started RAINING again....and everyone quickly looked for cover in the buildings, including the stall owners. It was really 人山人海.....we waited a while before the sky cleared for a bit then continued to walk around and find our way back to the hotel, as we had another flight to catch in the evening.
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| TRAFFIC JAM in Venice.....so-called traffic jam in water! |
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| bye-bye Venice.... |
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