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Relaxing for the first time in a long time.
So all three days of Venice is going in one blog post. Because we did practically the same thing every day. It never got old.
Our hotel was nice. It was off the island, so we had to travel there by bus. 1,10 Euro was a one-way. Not bad, esp. considering it was all we had to pay for transport each day. One fare there, one fare back.
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Ross Versus the Volcano
Hey Everybody,
First off you may notice at the top of this entry that it says I was in Mestre as opposed to Venice, when I booked my accommodations I found that it was much more affordable to stay on the mainland (which you can see from the map is where Mestre is located) and after staying in hostels everyday since my hotel in Irun, Spain …
Grappa
2 weeks ago we visited to Bassano del Grappa, which is a beautiful city in northern Italy, where they make Grappa. It is a small town and they have a grappa museum. It was good to see, because I did not know how grappa is made. In earlier days it was the poor man's drink, because it is made from grape pomace, meaning the skins and seeds. Basically the leftovers of the winemaking process. This pomace ...
Jammin, Jammin, and I hope you like Jammin too!
... Coldplay were as usual spectacular (amazing lightshow, obligatory balloons, great songs (they played about 5/6 new ones which makes it look like the new albums gonna be a corker), and huge energy).
We left, back to our bungalow which we were now sharing with two others and promptly went to sleep.
Liam left the next day to Milano and I headed back to Treviso to my host family.
Stay tuned for the next adventure, Treviso or somewhere further off?
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This defines all logic
... as the next day is the holy day in this land of catholics and we were told that no shops would be open (except the tourist ones of course). We found two little authentic Italian supermarkets whose assistants only spoke Italian. So that was fun! We bought cheese, panchetta, pasta , vino etc. I quite enjoyed practicing my few words, while Brenna quietly laughed in the background. It's quite an amazing experience, walking around the streets. Most are tiny ...