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Maze of canals and alley ways
... in colour with other tiles forming the picture they littered the church from top to bottom. We then forked out 8 euro to travel up to the top of the belltower next to the church which gave us a fantastic view of the city, it was a bit disappointing that the tall buildings hid the view of the canals.
After a couple more hours of getting lost we decided to retreat to the hotel, grab a jumper and meet back up for dinner. We found a great family owned restaurant off the main drag ...
Day 6: Venice
... I've experienced this trip. I now sit in Sežana train station, waiting on my train to Ljubljana, where my hostel is this evening. It's so different in Slovenia already...nothing is in English, there are lizards on the ground, and the heat is bearable, not too hot at all, but very sunny too. Just manageable :) Things I learned yesterday: Venice is not smelly, foreign people think I'm Irish, and "diven" is not a word. Looking forward to: A night in ...
Venice - day 2
... either, and 30 mins with a lady who was helpful but clearly too sick of tourists for this early in the tourist season). When then got a water ferry (not sure what they are called...maybe "l'aqua de punto"?) back along the Canale Grande to San Marco. We wandered back through the streets - had some awesome pizza and gelato - did some shopping, and got and espresso (where the machines are covered in chrome and have an scrolling LED display welcoming me to their fine establishment, and ...
Gondola and serenades
... the receptionists. But first we had a few quiet red wines at a little jazzy wine bar in one of the side streets, only big enough for a few bar stools inside and a couple of tables outside. We had two Sicily shirazs which were quite nice. Not as bold as ours at home and a touch fruitier. Each time we ordered the bar man gave us a bowl of crisps to munch on. We had dinner at a seafood restaurant close to the main shopping precinct and the wine ...
The Classic Water City
... out in recognition of a plaza that he couldn’t possibly have been in before (never having been to Venice before). "I know this place! There’s… there’s a doorway into the Basilica just around that corner, and a back gate for the tower just hidden past that construction gate. I know this place, I did my best sniper-shooting from that balcony over there!" As it turns out, the makers of the stealth video game Assassin’s Creed are incredibly historically accurate.
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