venice, short and to the point.

I think that I have done a good job of visiting all the major areas in Italy thus far especially after  the weekend of Feb 4. Emily Christine and I decided to be spontaneous and venture off to Venice for the night. Boy was that an adventure to say the least. Note to all don’t arrive in a city without a map, or else you may have to be directed to your hostel via telephone from someone in America being that is what happened to us. We walked around the maze of Venice for almost two hours trying to find where we were sleeping for the evening. Thanks to Emilys father for taking an hour out of work day to google map and direct us to the wonderful bed and breakfast Rota. We then had chinese food since that was the only thing open at 1130 at night. 

We woke up early to be sure that we see everything we wanted to. We skipped out on going to San Polo since we walked around there for a good hour the night before while trying to find out hostel. We did a walking tour real quick through San Marco. 

                                                      POSTCARD STATUS PHOTO!


After that we decided to venture over to the glass blowing island known as Murano, just what Venice is known for. We then saw a glass blowing demonstration which was awesome. 

                                                                     Demonstration 


The guy was able to make a horse in a matter of 3 minutes. All the glass shops on the island are beautiful, so much artwork! After we went to Morano ventured back to venice had some lunch. 

                                                                            HORSE

The last stop on our trip was this wine store that was recommended in our tour book. If ever in venice be sure to bring an empty water bottle and go.  There were kets of all types of wine and you fill up a water bottle, each liter is 2 euros.  WHAT A BARGIN. I bet a place like that would do FANTASTIC in a college town. 

                                                                    Kegged Wine?!

                                                     Me and the owner of the wine shop

thats all for now update on amsterdam to come in the next few days I wont forget!