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Venice 3
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St. Marks Square
While the other 2 again slept off their night at the nightclub they didn't even enjoy, I headed to St. Marks Square to see why so many pigeons call it their home. The top of the church was cool, they had amazing mosaics on the ceilings, and the choral music was being played below us in the church service. I paid 8 Euro to catch a lift to the top of Giotto's Bell Tower, with incredible views of Venice, the canals and the islands. While waiting for the other two to meet me, I bought two books - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini, and "A Practical Guide to Racism", a satirical book stereotyping each race, eg. "Arabs - A guide to a peace-loving race", and "Jews - A guide to everything wrong in your life and why it's their fault".
The other two met me for lunch, and some shopping. They each bought a book while I bought the one I'd been looking for all along, "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks. As we'd exhausted practically everything to do in Venice, we went to sleep for a few hours.
Night
We headed out with our roommate Brad, a Jewish guy from Chicago who now lives in Colorado, and who wants to go with me tomorrow to the Venice Ghetto. Once again, we went to the same pizza restaurant (the pizzas were that good!!), and the same bar (cos there was nothing else to do), where once again there were no American girls. I'm sick of Venice, I wish we'd spent less time here and longer in somewhere fun like Munich.
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